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

Everyday Neuro: Psychology and Neuroscience Podcast Series by Dr Janine Cooper

Mar 26, 202521:15Science & Medicine

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 prese...

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