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How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past

How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past

The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memories of events. The post How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The Quanta Podcast

December 19, 201915m 57s

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The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memories of events.

The post How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past first appeared on Quanta Magazine