Trial reportProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2011
Oscillatory patterns in temporal lobe reveal context reinstatement during memory search.
Trial report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers.
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- Reinstatement of distributed cortical oscillations occurs with precise spatiotemporal dynamics during successful memory retrieval.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014Trial
- Prefrontal and medial temporal lobe activity at encoding predicts temporal context memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2010Trial
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- The retrieval of previously learned motor memories is facilitated by the reinstatement of default mode network manifold structures.PLoS biology · 2026Article
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- Hippocampal-guided reconstruction of an event's prior temporal context.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Cholinergic blockade reveals a role for human hippocampal theta in memory encoding but not retrieval.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Transfer of motor learning is associated with patterns of activity in the default mode network.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- The Effects of External Cue Overlap and Internal Goals on Selective Memory Retrieval as Revealed by Electroencephalographic (EEG) Neural Pattern Reinstatement.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Shared spectral fingerprints of temporal memory precision and representation of the temporal structure of complex narratives.iScience · 2025Article
- Synchronous Theta Networks Characterize Successful Memory Retrieval.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Study-phase reinstatement predicts subsequent recall.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Memory consolidation accelerates.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- A Retrieved Context Model of Serial Recall and Free Recall.Computational brain & behavior · 2025Article
- The influence of emotion on temporal context models.Cognition & emotion · 2025Review
- Using data from cue presentations results in grossly overestimating semantic BCI performance.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Time after Time: Preserving Temporal Memories When Experiences Repeat.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2024Review
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Abstract
Psychological theories of memory posit that when people recall a past event, they not only recover the features of the event itself, but also recover information associated with other events that occurred nearby in time. The events surrounding a target event, and the thoughts they evoke, may be considered to represent a context for the target event, helping to distinguish that event from similar events experienced at different times. The ability to reinstate this contextual information during memory search has been considered a hallmark of episodic, or event-based, memory. We sought to determine whether context reinstatement may be observed in electrical signals recorded from the human brain during episodic recall. Analyzing electrocorticographic recordings taken as 69 neurosurgical patients studied and recalled lists of words, we uncovered a neural signature of context reinstatement. Upon recalling a studied item, we found that the recorded patterns of brain activity were not only similar to the patterns observed when the item was studied, but were also similar to the patterns observed during study of neighboring list items, with similarity decreasing reliably with positional distance. The degree to which individual patients displayed this neural signature of context reinstatement was correlated with their tendency to recall neighboring list items successively. These effects were particularly strong in temporal lobe recordings. Our findings show that recalling a past event evokes a neural signature of the temporal context in which the event occurred, thus pointing to a neural basis for episodic memory.
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