Why Some Memories Seem Like Movies: ‘Time Cells’ Discovered In Human Brains

(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)

If you fall off a bike, you’ll probably end up with a cinematic memory of the experience: the wind in your hair, the pebble on the road, then the pain.

That’s known as an episodic memory. And now researchers have identified cells in the human brain that make this sort of memory possible, a team reports in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  Continue reading article here…

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