Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Lateralized hippocampal oscillations underlie distinct aspects of human spatial memory and navigation

  • Jonathan Miller,
  • Andrew J. Watrous,
  • Melina Tsitsiklis,
  • Sang Ah Lee,
  • Sameer A. Sheth,
  • Catherine A. Schevon,
  • Elliot H. Smith,
  • Michael R. Sperling,
  • Ashwini Sharan,
  • Ali Akbar Asadi-Pooya,
  • Gregory A. Worrell,
  • Stephen Meisenhelter,
  • Cory S. Inman,
  • Kathryn A. Davis,
  • Bradley Lega,
  • Paul A. Wanda,
  • Sandhitsu R. Das,
  • Joel M. Stein,
  • Richard Gorniak,
  • Joshua Jacobs

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04847-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Theta oscillations are implicated in memory formation. Here, the authors show that low-theta oscillations in the hippocampus are differentially modulated between each hemisphere, with oscillations in the left increasing when successfully learning object–location pairs and in the right during spatial navigation.