Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Theta rhythmicity governs human behavior and hippocampal signals during memory-dependent tasks

  • Marije ter Wal,
  • Juan Linde-Domingo,
  • Julia Lifanov,
  • Frédéric Roux,
  • Luca D. Kolibius,
  • Stephanie Gollwitzer,
  • Johannes Lang,
  • Hajo Hamer,
  • David Rollings,
  • Vijay Sawlani,
  • Ramesh Chelvarajah,
  • Bernhard Staresina,
  • Simon Hanslmayr,
  • Maria Wimber

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27323-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The hippocampus is a central memory hub and exhibits prominent theta oscillations. Here the authors show that oscillations are visible in behavior when decisions depend on memory, paralleled by theta phase synchronization in hippocampal recordings.