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ArticleNature communications2019

Changing temporal context in human temporal lobe promotes memory of distinct episodes.

Mostafa M El-Kalliny, John H Wittig, Timothy C Sheehan, Vishnu Sreekumar, Sara K Inati, Kareem A Zaghloul

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mostafa M El-KallinySurgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2656-9695
John H WittigSurgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Timothy C SheehanNeurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
Vishnu SreekumarSurgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Sara K InatiOffice of the Clinical Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Kareem A ZaghloulSurgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA. kareem.zaghloul@nih.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8575-3578
National Institutes of Health · USUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

Investigating the neural mechanisms of human cognitive function through intracranial recordingsZIANS003144 · NINDS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE · PI ZAGHLOUL, KAREEM · 2014 to 2025
$36.1M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Memories of experiences that occur around the same time are linked together by a shared temporal context, represented by shared patterns of neural activity. However, shared temporal context may be problematic for selective retrieval of specific memories. Here, we examine intracranial EEG (iEEG) in the human temporal lobe as participants perform a verbal paired associates memory task that requires the encoding of distinct word pairs in memory. We find that the rate of change in patterns of low frequency (3-12 Hz) power distributed across the temporal lobe is significantly related to memory performance. We also find that exogenous electrical stimulation affects how quickly these neural representations of temporal context change with time, which directly affects the ability to successfully form memories for distinct items. Our results indicate that the ability to retrieve distinct episodic memories is related to how quickly neural representations of temporal context change over time during encoding.

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Memory, EpisodicAdultBrain MappingDeep Brain StimulationDrug Resistant EpilepsyElectrodes, ImplantedElectroencephalographyFemaleHumansMaleMental RecallTemporal LobeVerbal Behavior

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PMID30643130
PMCPMC6331638
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