🧠 Your brain uses special neurons called time cells to organize your memories of events and experiences. But despite the name, these cells don't work like a clock.
But despite their name, time cells do not behave like a clock. Their ticks and tocks appear to follow rules that are independent of units like seconds and minutes.
It's still not clear how the brain decides precisely how many time stamps to put down, or how far apart they should be. But Howard is among the scientists who believe it takes a mathematical approach.Time cells appear to maintain a logarithmic timeline, Howard says, which allows them to represent time in a compressed form. He thinks the brain also uses a mathematical tool called a Laplace transform to navigate between the real-world firing of neurons and their representation in memory.
"You can recognize that as seven perfectly well because the relative shape of the syllables is the same," Howard says. What's different is the duration of the syllables, something a network of time cells can adjust.They're just one part of the brain's system for organizing episodic memories, which are"our personal egocentric memories – what happened to me, where, and when," saysEpisodic memories are for events and experiences.
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