"Time cells" in the brain act like a stopwatch for complex tasks

Researchers found that time cells in the brain are crucial for learning complex tasks, acting like a personalized time code.

'Time Cells' in Human Brain Encode The Flow of Time

Research suggests that 'time cells' – neurons in the hippocampus thought to represent temporal information – could be the glue that sticks our memories together in the right sequence so that we can properly recall the correct order in which things happened.