Summary: Pyramidal cells in the CA2 region of the hippocampus are responsible for storing critical timing information.

Source: MIT

When we experience a new event, our brain records a memory of not only what happened, but also the context, including the time and location of the event. A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on how the timing of a memory is encoded in the hippocampus, and suggests that time and space are encoded separately.