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 <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-creates-a-timeline-of-the-past-20190212/" target="_blank">How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a>

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 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 <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-creates-a-timeline-of-the-past-20190212/" rel="noopener noreferrer">How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Quanta Magazine</a>

How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past

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Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the abstractions of math, the complexity of information itself, and much more, The Quanta Podcast is a tour of the frontier between the known and the unknown. In each episode, Quanta Magazine Editor-in-Chief Samir Patel speaks with the minds behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math. Quanta specifically covers fundamental research — driven by curiosity, discovery and the overwhelming desire to know why and how. Join us every Tuesday for a stimulating conversation about the biggest ideas and the tiniest details. (If you've been a fan of the Quanta Science Podcast, it will continue here. You'll see those episodes marked as audio edition episodes every two weeks.)

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