Although a large body of research has implicated the hippocampus in the processing of memory for temporal duration, there is an exigent degree of inconsistency across studies that obfuscates the precise contributions of this structure. To shed light on this issue, the present review article surveys both historical and recent cross-species evidence emanating from a wide variety of experimental paradigms, identifying areas of convergence and divergence. We suggest that while factors such as time-scale (e.g. the length of durations involved) and the nature of memory processing (e.g. prospective vs. retrospective memory) are very helpful in the interpretation of existing data, an additional important consideration is the context in which the duration information is experienced and processed, with the hippocampus being preferentially involved in memory for durations that are embedded within a sequence of events. We consider the mechanisms that may underpin temporal duration memory and how the same mechanisms may contribute to memory for other aspects of event sequences such as temporal order.

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在事件序列的背景下，海马有助于时间持续记忆：跨物种的观点。

尽管大量的研究已经将海马体牵涉到时间持续的记忆过程中，但是在整个研究中仍然存在严重的不一致性，这混淆了这种结构的确切作用。为了阐明这一问题，本综述文章对来自各种实验范式的历史和近来跨物种证据进行了调查，确定了趋同和趋异的领域。我们建议，尽管时间尺度（例如，所涉及的持续时间的长度）和内存处理的性质（例如，前瞻性记忆与回顾性记忆）等因素在解释现有数据方面非常有帮助，但另外一个重要的考虑因素是经历和处理的持续时间信息，海马优先参与记忆，持续一段事件序列中嵌入的持续时间。我们考虑了可能支撑时间长度记忆的机制，以及相同的机制如何为事件序列的其他方面（例如时间顺序）贡献记忆。