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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2015

More than spikes: common oscillatory mechanisms for content specific neural representations during perception and memory.

Andrew J Watrous, Juergen Fell, Arne D Ekstrom, Nikolai Axmacher

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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46 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Andrew J WatrousDepartment of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Electronic address: andrew.j.watrous@gmail.com.
Juergen FellDepartment of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Arne D EkstromCenter for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, CA, United States; Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA, United States.
Nikolai AxmacherDepartment of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease (DZNE), Bonn, Germany. Electronic address: nikolai.axmacher@ukb.uni-bonn.de.

Funding

Representation of spatiotemporal information in human episodic memory and navigationR01NS076856 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI ARNE D EKSTROM · 2012 to 2026
$4.8M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS076856
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although previous research into the mechanisms underlying sensory and episodic representations has primarily focused on changes in neural firing rate, more recent evidence suggests that neural oscillations also contribute to these representations. Here, we argue that multiplexed oscillatory power and phase contribute to neural representations at the mesoscopic scale, complementary to neuronal firing. Reviewing recent studies which used oscillatory activity to decipher content-specific neural representations, we identify oscillatory mechanisms common to both sensory and episodic memory representations and incorporate these into a model of episodic encoding and retrieval. This model advances the idea that oscillations provide a reference frame for phase-coded item representations during memory encoding and that shifts in oscillatory frequency and phase coordinate ensemble activity during memory retrieval.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsBiological ClocksHumansMemoryNeuronsPerception

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PMID25129044
PMCPMC4329113

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