> Our study reveals neurons in the MTL and mPFC that encode
time and space during exploration in a virtual environment for
fixed durations. Time cells activated at rest in the absence of
movement or other external contextual change, while distinct
time cells and place cells emerged during navigation and ex-
hibited divergent responses to changing tasks. These results
demonstrate a neuron-level code for spatiotemporal context in
the human brain, in which time and space are simultaneously
represented but not wholly conjoined.
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2. Skip the entire paper and read the "discussion" or "conclusion" near the end. This will pretty much tell you what the paper is saying, typically in more familiar language.
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