Place cells are hippocampal neurons, typically from regions…
Place cells are hippocampal neurons, typically from regions CA1 and CA3, that fire at a high rate whenever the animal is in a specific location in the environment, called the place field.
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Time cells are neurons in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex that fire at specific moments within a cognitive task or experience. We identify time cell populations in the medial temporal lobe of humans during memory encoding and retrieval.