Promises and limitations of human intracranial electroencephalography

J Parvizi, S Kastner - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG), also known as electrocorticography when using
subdural grid electrodes or stereotactic EEG when using depth electrodes, is blossoming in …

Spatial representations in the human brain

NA Herweg, MJ Kahana - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
While extensive research on the neurophysiology of spatial memory has been carried out in
rodents, memory research in humans had traditionally focused on more abstract, language …

Theta and alpha oscillations are traveling waves in the human neocortex

H Zhang, AJ Watrous, A Patel, J Jacobs - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Human cognition requires the coordination of neural activity across widespread brain
networks. Here, we describe a new mechanism for large-scale coordination in the human …

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

J Miller, AJ Watrous, M Tsitsiklis, SA Lee… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The hippocampus plays a vital role in various aspects of cognition including both memory
and spatial navigation. To understand electrophysiologically how the hippocampus supports …

[HTML][HTML] Integration of visual information in auditory cortex promotes auditory scene analysis through multisensory binding

H Atilgan, SM Town, KC Wood, GP Jones, RK Maddox… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
How and where in the brain audio-visual signals are bound to create multimodal objects
remains unknown. One hypothesis is that temporal coherence between dynamic …

h-Channels contribute to divergent intrinsic membrane properties of supragranular pyramidal neurons in human versus mouse cerebral cortex

BE Kalmbach, A Buchin, B Long, J Close, A Nandi… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Gene expression studies suggest that differential ion channel expression contributes to
differences in rodent versus human neuronal physiology. We tested whether h-channels …

Nonoscillatory phase coding and synchronization in the bat hippocampal formation

T Eliav, M Geva-Sagiv, MM Yartsev, A Finkelstein… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Hippocampal theta oscillations were proposed to be important for multiple functions,
including memory and temporal coding of position. However, previous findings from bats …

Serial representation of items during working memory maintenance at letter-selective cortical sites

A Bahramisharif, O Jensen, J Jacobs, J Lisman - PLoS biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
A key component of working memory is the ability to remember multiple items
simultaneously. To understand how the human brain maintains multiple items in memory …

Phase-tuned neuronal firing encodes human contextual representations for navigational goals

AJ Watrous, J Miller, SE Qasim, I Fried, J Jacobs - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
We previously demonstrated that the phase of oscillations modulates neural activity
representing categorical information using human intracranial recordings and high …

Navigation in real-world environments: New opportunities afforded by advances in mobile brain imaging

JL Park, PA Dudchenko, DI Donaldson - Frontiers in Human …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
A central question in neuroscience and psychology is how the mammalian brain represents
the outside world and enables interaction with it. Significant progress on this question has …