How our brain remembers the order of events

• The hippocampus is a part of the brain that plays an important role in memory
• How hippocampal time cells are generated to remember the sequence of items in our memory has been found by researchers at the University of Warwick
• Now that we understand how the order events is stored in the brain, we now have a better foundation for exploring brain dysfunctions relating to memory, including the changes in memory in healthy ageing, Alzheimer’s disease, and the memory for sad events in depression.

For centuries understanding how the order of events is stored in memory has been a mystery. However, researchers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick have worked out how the order of events in memory could be…