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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2014

Prospective and retrospective duration memory in the hippocampus: is time in the foreground or background?

Christopher J MacDonald

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Neural Representation of Episodic Time.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  4. Neurocomputational Models of Interval Timing: Seeing the Forest for the Trees.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
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  5. Spontaneous α Brain Dynamics Track the Episodic "When".The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  7. Medial Entorhinal Cortex Excitatory Neurons Are Necessary for Accurate Timing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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  8. Reply to Lehr and Stöber: What's in a name? On the distinction between temporal coding and internally driven activity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  12. The Persistence of Memory: How the Brain Encodes Time in Memory.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

  • Erratum issued
5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Christopher J MacDonaldPicower Institute for Learning and Memory, RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, , 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Funding

Temporal Organization of Memory in the HippocampusR01MH095297 · NIMH · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI HOWARD, MARC W · 2011 to 2020
$4.1M
NIMH NIH HHS MH095297
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psychologists have long distinguished between prospective and retrospective timing to highlight the difference between our sense of duration during an experience in passing and our sense of duration in hindsight. Humans and other animals use prospective timing in the seconds-to-minutes range in order to learn durations, and can organize their behaviour based upon this knowledge when they know that duration information will be important ahead of time. By contrast, when durations are estimated after the fact, thus precluding the subject from consciously attending to temporal information, duration information must be extracted from other memory representations. The accumulated evidence from prospective timing research has generally led to the hippocampus (HPC) being casted in a supporting role with prefrontal-striatal, cortical or cerebellar circuits playing the lead. Here, I review findings from the animal and human literature that have led to this conclusion and consider that the contribution of the HPC to duration memory is understated because we have little understanding about how we remember duration.

Indexed as

Memory, EpisodicModels, NeurologicalAnimalsCognitionHippocampusHumansTime Perceptioncontextepisodic memoryhippocampusinterval timingtemporal sequencetime cells

Identifiers

PMID24446497
PMCPMC3895988

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