Context-dependent abstraction of temporal relationships during naturalistic episodic memory
Qun Ye, Yi Hu, Yixuan Ku, Kofi Appiah, Sze Chai Kwok · 2026
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Description
Qun Ye and co-authors ask in 2026 how the brain stores how far apart in time two past events felt. Healthy adults played a first person video game, then judged the order of pairs of moments while their brains were scanned. The team looked for brain patterns whose shape matched the time gaps people recalled.
A pattern in a region at the back of the brain tracked those gaps, from under a second to about eighteen minutes. The pattern was stronger for events from the same context, and weak stimulus to that region made it fade. The work suggests this region helps organize time within episodes, not as a plain clock.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Qun Ye, Yi Hu, Yixuan Ku, Kofi Appiah, Sze Chai Kwok |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 97 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |