Abstract
The human brain parsimoniously situates past events by their order in relation to time. Here, we show the posteromedial cortex geometrically abstracts the time intervals separating pairs of event-moments in long-term, episodic memory. Transcranial magnetic stimulation targeted at the precuneus erases these locally distributed multivariate representations, and alters the correlation between precuneal activity patterns and mnemonic judgements, revealing a critical role of the precuneus in abstracting temporal distances during episodic memory retrieval.
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