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Neural Representation of Episodic Time.

Publication ,  Journal Article
Kwok, SC; Lapate, RC; Sakon, JJ; van Wassenhove, V; Xue, G; Zheng, J
Published in: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
November 2025

Inspired by recent discoveries of neural populations that track time for specific moments (time cells) and elapsed durations (temporal context and periodic time cells), this review, based on a minisymposium presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, brings together macro-, meso-, and micro-scale neural evidence to formulate hypotheses about how episodic time-the tracking and organizing of events in time as we experience, store, and retrieve them from memory-is coded and processed in the mammalian brain. We also discuss computational principles and relationships to other related phenomena such as memory replay and emotional states.

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Published In

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

DOI

EISSN

1529-2401

ISSN

0270-6474

Publication Date

November 2025

Volume

45

Issue

46

Start / End Page

e1397252025

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Perception
  • Neurons
  • Neurology & Neurosurgery
  • Memory, Episodic
  • Humans
  • Brain
  • Animals
  • 3209 Neurosciences
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences
 

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Kwok, S. C., Lapate, R. C., Sakon, J. J., van Wassenhove, V., Xue, G., & Zheng, J. (2025). Neural Representation of Episodic Time. The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 45(46), e1397252025. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1397-25.2025
Kwok, Sze Chai, Regina C. Lapate, John J. Sakon, Virginie van Wassenhove, Gui Xue, and Jie Zheng. “Neural Representation of Episodic Time.The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 45, no. 46 (November 2025): e1397252025. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1397-25.2025.
Kwok SC, Lapate RC, Sakon JJ, van Wassenhove V, Xue G, Zheng J. Neural Representation of Episodic Time. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2025 Nov;45(46):e1397252025.
Kwok, Sze Chai, et al. “Neural Representation of Episodic Time.The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 45, no. 46, Nov. 2025, p. e1397252025. Epmc, doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1397-25.2025.
Kwok SC, Lapate RC, Sakon JJ, van Wassenhove V, Xue G, Zheng J. Neural Representation of Episodic Time. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2025 Nov;45(46):e1397252025.

Published In

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

DOI

EISSN

1529-2401

ISSN

0270-6474

Publication Date

November 2025

Volume

45

Issue

46

Start / End Page

e1397252025

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Perception
  • Neurons
  • Neurology & Neurosurgery
  • Memory, Episodic
  • Humans
  • Brain
  • Animals
  • 3209 Neurosciences
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences