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ArticleImaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2024

No evidence that visual impulses enhance the readout of retrieved long-term memory contents from EEG activity.

Sander van Bree, Abbie Sarah Mackenzie, Maria Wimber

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Article in Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Alpha Oscillations Track the Projection of Reactivated Memories into Conscious Awareness.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Sander van BreeCentre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Abbie Sarah MackenzieCentre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Maria WimberCentre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The application of multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) to electroencephalography (EEG) data allows neuroscientists to track neural representations at temporally fine-grained scales. This approach has been leveraged to study the locus and evolution of long-term memory contents in the brain, but a limiting factor is that decoding performance remains low. A key reason for this is that processes such as encoding and retrieval are intrinsically dynamic across trials and participants, and this runs in tension with MVPA and other techniques that rely on consistently unfolding neural codes to generate predictions about memory contents. The presentation of visually perturbing stimuli may experimentally regularize brain dynamics, making neural codes more stable across measurements to enhance representational readouts. Such enhancements, which have repeatedly been demonstrated in working memory contexts, could offer a tool to improve decoding in long-term memory tasks. In this study, we evaluated whether visual perturbations-or

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brain dynamicsdecodingEEGlong-term memoryMVPAperturbationpingvisual impulse

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PMID40800381
PMCPMC12290828

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