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Neural theta oscillations support semantic memory retrieval.
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Effects of Transcranial Electrical Stimulation Combined With Retrieval Practice on Semantic Memory in Patients With Schizophrenia
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- Differential online and offline effects of theta-tACS on memory encoding and retrieval.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Hippocampal-medial prefrontal cortex network dynamics predict performance during retrieval in a context-guided object memory task.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Working-Memory, Alpha-Theta Oscillations and Musical Training in Older Age: Research Perspectives for Speech-on-speech Perception.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
- Decoding EEG Brain Activity for Multi-Modal Natural Language Processing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Left Prefrontal Cortex Supports the Recognition of Meaningful Patterns in Ambiguous Stimuli.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- All spectral frequencies of neural activity reveal semantic representation in the human anterior ventral temporal cortex.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Lexical-semantic retrieval emerges through the interactions of distributed prefrontal and perisylvian brain networks. Growing evidence suggests that synchronous theta band neural oscillations might play a role in this process, yet, their functional significance remains elusive. Here, we used transcranial alternating current stimulation to induce exogenous theta oscillations at 6 Hz (θ-tACS) over left prefrontal and posterior perisylvian cortex with a 180° (anti-phase) and 0° (in-phase) relative phase difference while participants performed automatic and controlled retrieval tasks. We demonstrate that θ-tACS significantly modulated the retrieval performance and its effects were both task- and phase-specific: the in-phase tACS impaired controlled retrieval, whereas the anti-phase tACS improved controlled but impaired automatic retrieval. These findings indicate that theta band oscillatory brain activity supports binding of semantically related representations via a phase-dependent modulation of semantic activation or maintenance.
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