August 25, 2015 9:00 — 0 Comments

Study Finds Where Our Brain Stores the Time and Place of Memories

For the first time, an exact location within the brain has been shown to be the resting place of memories and other records of time. Researchers from Ohio State University conducted a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which participants used a smartphone app to create specific memories of locations and actions, which were then tracked through neural imaging in later tests. “If the participants didn’t recall the images, we didn’t see this relationship,” said the lead author of the study. “We also don’t get this effect if we only asked about the time and not the place of the memory. We found that time and space are very much intertwined in our representations of memories. We found that the hippocampus represents time and space for at least a month of memories spanning up to 30 kilometers (19 miles) in space. It is the first time we’ve been able to study memories on the scale of our lives.” To learn more about this study, click here.

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