Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Neuronal baseline shifts underlying boundary setting during free recall

  • Yitzhak Norman,
  • Erin M. Yeagle,
  • Michal Harel,
  • Ashesh D. Mehta,
  • Rafael Malach

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01184-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Though people are easily able to recall items in a category without mentioning a wrong exemplar, the mechanism underlying this ability is unknown. Here, authors use intracranial recordings to show that this ability is likely due to a selective increase in baseline neuronal activity in category-specific regions.