ArticleNature communications2021
Theta rhythmicity governs human behavior and hippocampal signals during memory-dependent tasks.
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- Switching on the behavioral and neural rhythmicity to retrieve memories when the number of retained items exceeds four.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Phase Consistency Dynamics of Memory Encoding.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Cholinergic blockade reveals a role for human hippocampal theta in memory encoding but not retrieval.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Selective inhibition in CA3: A mechanism for stable pattern completion through heterosynaptic plasticity.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory.Current directions in psychological science · 2025Article
- Development of the SPEAR Model: Separate Phases of Encoding and Retrieval Are Necessary for Storing Multiple Overlapping Associative Memories.Hippocampus · 2025Review
- Top-down selection of visual working memory contents is supported by alpha-band phase-synchronized oscillatory networks.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Context changes retrieval of prospective outcomes during decision deliberation.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Frequency-specific directed connectivity between the hippocampus and parietal cortex during verbal and spatial episodic memory: an intracranial EEG replication.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
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- No evidence that visual impulses enhance the readout of retrieved long-term memory contents from EEG activity.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Neurophysiological mechanisms of cognition in the developing brain: Insights from intracranial EEG studies.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Review
- Septo-hippocampal dynamics and the encoding of space and time.Trends in neurosciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Memory formation and reinstatement are thought to lock to the hippocampal theta rhythm, predicting that encoding and retrieval processes appear rhythmic themselves. Here, we show that rhythmicity can be observed in behavioral responses from memory tasks, where participants indicate, using button presses, the timing of encoding and recall of cue-object associative memories. We find no evidence for rhythmicity in button presses for visual tasks using the same stimuli, or for questions about already retrieved objects. The oscillations for correctly remembered trials center in the slow theta frequency range (1-5 Hz). Using intracranial EEG recordings, we show that the memory task induces temporally extended phase consistency in hippocampal local field potentials at slow theta frequencies, but significantly more for remembered than forgotten trials, providing a potential mechanistic underpinning for the theta oscillations found in behavioral responses.
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