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ArticleNature communications2019

Coordinated representational reinstatement in the human hippocampus and lateral temporal cortex during episodic memory retrieval.

D Pacheco Estefan, M Sánchez-Fibla, A Duff, A Principe, R Rocamora, H Zhang, N Axmacher, P F M J Verschure

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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 49 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

D Pacheco EstefanLaboratory of Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems (SPECS), Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), 08028, Barcelona, Spain.
M Sánchez-FiblaDepartment of Information and Communications Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5725-1984
A DuffLaboratory of Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems (SPECS), Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), 08028, Barcelona, Spain.
A PrincipeEpilepsy Monitoring Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital del Mar, 08003, Barcelona, Spain.
R RocamoraEpilepsy Monitoring Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital del Mar, 08003, Barcelona, Spain.
H ZhangDepartment of Neuropsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany.
N AxmacherDepartment of Neuropsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany.
P F M J VerschureLaboratory of Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems (SPECS), Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), 08028, Barcelona, Spain. pverschure@ibecbarcelona.eu.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra · ESRuhr University Bochum · DEHospital Del Mar · ESInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats · ESInstitute for Bioengineering of Catalonia · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Theoretical models of episodic memory have proposed that retrieval depends on interactions between the hippocampus and neocortex, where hippocampal reinstatement of item-context associations drives neocortical reinstatement of item information. Here, we simultaneously recorded intracranial EEG from hippocampus and lateral temporal cortex (LTC) of epilepsy patients who performed a virtual reality spatial navigation task. We extracted stimulus-specific representations of both item and item-context associations from the time-frequency patterns of activity in hippocampus and LTC. Our results revealed a double dissociation of representational reinstatement across time and space: an early reinstatement of item-context associations in hippocampus preceded a later reinstatement of item information in LTC. Importantly, reinstatement levels in hippocampus and LTC were correlated across trials, and the quality of LTC reinstatement was predicted by the magnitude of phase synchronization between hippocampus and LTC. These findings confirm that episodic memory retrieval in humans relies on coordinated representational interactions within a hippocampal-neocortical network.

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Memory, EpisodicAdultBrain MappingElectrocorticographyEpilepsyFemaleHippocampusHumansMaleMental RecallMiddle AgedNerve NetTemporal LobeYoung Adult

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PMID31113952
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