Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Flexibility of functional neuronal assemblies supports human memory

  • Gray Umbach,
  • Ryan Tan,
  • Joshua Jacobs,
  • Brad E. Pfeiffer,
  • Bradley Lega

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33587-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Neuronal assemblies remain understudied in human data. Here, the authors show that gamma phase-locked neuronal firing sequences comprise assemblies in human single unit recordings, and their ability to incorporate new neurons over time facilitates memory.