Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus

AE Comrie, LM Frank, K Kay - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Imagination is a biological function that is vital to human experience and advanced
cognition. Despite this importance, it remains unknown how imagination is realized in the …

[HTML][HTML] EEG, MEG and neuromodulatory approaches to explore cognition: Current status and future directions

C Beppi, IR Violante, G Scott, S Sandrone - Brain and Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Neural oscillations and their association with brain states and cognitive functions have been
object of extensive investigation over the last decades. Several electroencephalography …

Theta Signal Transfer from Parietal to Prefrontal Cortex Ignites Conscious Awareness of Implicit Knowledge during Sequence Learning

Y Lu, X Guo, X Weng, H Jiang, H Yan… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Unconscious acquisition of sequence structure from experienced events can lead to explicit
awareness of the pattern through extended practice. Although the implicit-to-explicit …

Contributions of cortical neuron firing patterns, synaptic connectivity, and plasticity to task performance

MN Insanally, BF Albanna, J Toth… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Neuronal responses during behavior are diverse, ranging from highly reliable
'classical'responses to irregular 'non-classically responsive'firing. While a continuum of …

Phase separation of competing memories along the human hippocampal theta rhythm

C Kerrén, S van Bree, BJ Griffiths, M Wimber - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Competition between overlapping memories is considered one of the major causes of
forgetting, and it is still unknown how the human brain resolves such mnemonic conflict. In …

[HTML][HTML] Rhythmic temporal coordination of neural activity prevents representational conflict during working memory

M Abdalaziz, ZV Redding, IC Fiebelkorn - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Selective attention 1 is characterized by alternating states associated with either attentional
sampling or attentional shifting, helping to prevent functional conflicts by isolating function …

Neurophysiological time course of timbre-induced music-like perception

AE Santoyo, MG Gonzales, ZJ Iqbal… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Traditionally, pitch variation in a sound stream has been integral to music identity. We
attempt to expand music's definition, by demonstrating that the neural code for musicality is …

Phase information is conserved in sparse, synchronous population-rate-codes via phase-to-rate recoding

D Müller-Komorowska, B Kuru, H Beck… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neural computation is often traced in terms of either rate-or phase-codes. However, most
circuit operations will simultaneously affect information across both coding schemes. It …

Human voltage-gated Na+ and K+ channel properties underlie sustained fast AP signaling

R Wilbers, VD Metodieva, S Duverdin, DB Heyer… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Human cortical pyramidal neurons are large, have extensive dendritic trees, and yet have
unexpectedly fast input-output properties: Rapid subthreshold synaptic membrane potential …

Temporal dynamics of competition between statistical learning and episodic memory in intracranial recordings of human visual cortex

BE Sherman, KN Graves, DM Huberdeau… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
The function of long-term memory is not just to reminisce about the past, but also to make
predictions that help us behave appropriately and efficiently in the future. This predictive …