Identifying Questions and Hypotheses

I found an experiment about how the brain encodes time and place. This experiment, done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology identified the "where" and "when" components of memory. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150923134112.htm>. The question of the study was what brain circuit processes the "when" and "where components of memory? They reached the hypothesis that if the entorhinal cortex seperates location and time, then the "when" and "where" information of memory is split even before it reaches the hippocampus. Prior to this experiment, it was believed that the memory storage part of the brain, the hippocampus, separated the timing and context information. However, this hypothesis was based on the idea that the circuit, which connects the hippocampus and a region of the cortex known as entorhinal cortex, separates location and timing into two streams of information before it reaches the hippocampus.