The brain's hippocampus contains place cells, which encode an animal's specific location. The finding that hippocampal neurons may also respond to time could provide information on the coding of episodic memories.
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Buzsáki, G. Time, space and memory. Nature 497, 568–569 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/497568a
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