Neural Representation of Episodic Time
Inspired by recent discoveries of neural populations that track time for specific moments (time cells) and elapsed durations (temporal context and periodic time cells), this review, based on a minisymposium presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, brings together macro-, meso-, and micro-scale neural evidence to formulate hypotheses about how episodic time-the tracking and organizing of events in time as we experience, store, and retrieve them from memory-is coded and processed in the mammalian brain. We also discuss computational principles and relationships to other related phenomena such as memory replay and emotional states.
Authors
- Gui Xue (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7891-8151)
- Sze Chai Kwok (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7439-1193)
- Regina C. Lapate (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1835-2309)
- John J. Sakon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8170-6213)
- Virginie van Wassenhove (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2569-5502)
- Jie Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9640-1604)
Institutions
- McGovern Institute for Brain Research (US)
- Inserm (FR)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Beijing Normal University (CN)
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Direction de la Recherche Fondamentale (FR)
- Chinese Institute for Brain Research (CN)
- CEA Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab (FR)
- Neurological Surgery (US)
- Duke Kunshan University (CN)
- University of California, Davis (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Neuroscience
- Published
- 2025-11-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1397-25.2025
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.72