Neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe they have discovered two neural circuits that coordinate how time-linked memories are formed and stored in the brain.

Scientists already know that memories of events (called “episodic memories”) are created in the hippocampus area of the brain. The hippocampus receives information from the entorhinal cortex (a region of the central cortex), which processes sensory information.

Research on animals has told us that neurons in the brain, called “place cells,” fire when an animal is in a specific location that is linked to a memory.

This explains how the brain can link memories and locations, but experts know relatively little about how objects and time are associated in the brain.

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