Which object appeared longer?
In this issue of Neuron, Genovesio et al. report that neurons in the frontal cortex encode the relative duration of appearance of two sensory signals, together with the features of each signal. Such representations could provide a neural basis for episodic memory.
Tanji
Jun
J
Brain Science Research Institute, Tamagawa University, Tokyo 194-8610, Japan. tanji@lab.tamagawa.ac.jp
Mushiake
Hajime
H
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