Everyday Neuro 024: Mental Time Travel – How the Hippocampus Enables Recalling the Past and Imagining the Future

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Everyday Neuro 024: Mental Time Travel – How the Hippocampus Enables Recalling the Past and Imagining the Future is an episode from Everyday Neuro: Psychology and Neuroscience Podcast Series by Dr Janine Cooper.

This episode is 21:15 long.

This episode was published on Mar 26, 2025.

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