{"id":3250,"date":"2025-11-26T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:20:01","slug":"how-the-brain-constructs-time-and-space-and-how-these-are-related-to-episodic-memory%ef%bc%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"How the brain constructs time and space and how these are related to episodic memory\uff1f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Buzs\u00e1ki, G. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41583-025-00987-2\"><strong>Time, space, memory and brain\u2013body rhythms<\/strong><\/a>. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. (2025). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41583-025-00987-2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Time and space are crucial concepts in neuroscience, because our personal memories are tied to specific events that occur \u2018in\u2019 a particular space and on a \u2018timeline\u2019<\/strong><\/span>. Thus, we seek to understand <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">how the brain constructs time and space and how these are related to episodic memory<\/span><\/strong>. Place cells and time cells have been identified in the brain and have been proposed to \u2018represent\u2019 space and time via single-neuron or population coding, thus acting as hypothetical coordinates within a Newtonian framework of space and time. However, there is a fundamental tension between the linear and unidirectional flow of physical time and the variable nature of experienced time. Moreover, modern physics no longer views space as a fixed container and time as something in which events occur. Here, I articulate an alternative view: <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">that time (physical and experienced) is an abstracted relational measure of change<\/span><\/strong>. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Physical time is measured using arbitrary units and artificial clocks, whereas experienced time is linked to a hierarchy of brain\u2013body rhythms that provide a range of reference scales that reflect the full span of experienced time<\/span><\/strong>. Changes in body and brain circuits, tied to these rhythms, may be the source of our subjective feeling of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Buzs\u00e1ki, G. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41583-025-00987-2\"><strong>Time, space, memory and brain\u2013body rhythms<\/strong><\/a>. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. (2025). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41583-025-00987-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzs\u00e1ki, G. Time, space, memory and brain\u2013body rhythms. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. (2025). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41583-025-00987-2 Abstract &#8220;Time and space are crucial concepts in neuroscience, because our personal memories are tied to specific events that occur \u2018in\u2019 a particular space and on a \u2018timeline\u2019. Thus, we seek to understand how the brain constructs time and space and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[636,762],"tags":[1490,148,588,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3251,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}