Everyday Neuro: Psychology and Neuroscience Podcast
Everyday Neuro 024: Mental Time Travel – How the Hippocampus Enables Recalling the Past and Imagining the Future
March 26, 202521 min · 3,726 words
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In this episode, dedicated to the pioneering researcher Professor Eleanor Maguire, I talk about how the hippocampus acts like a time machine, to help us remember events and special moments in our past, navigate the present and travel into the future. I talk about Maguire’s groundbreaking London Taxi Driver study and how it has changed our understanding of memory, spatial navigation and scene construction.
Highlighted moments
the same brain mechanisms used to remember our past experiences are also used when imagining future events or creating fictitional scenarios.
“The study investigated how damaged the areas of the brain that are associated with event memory in childhood, namely the hippocampi, impair the detailed recollection of personal memories about the self but not the ability to imagine fictitious events. Now this is in stark contrast to adults with similar damage who have impairment in both abilities.”
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