Theta oscillations in human memory

NA Herweg, EA Solomon, MJ Kahana - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Theta frequency (4–8 Hz) fluctuations of the local field potential have long been implicated
in learning and memory. Human studies of episodic memory, however, have provided mixed …

Making sense of astrocytic calcium signals—from acquisition to interpretation

A Semyanov, C Henneberger, A Agarwal - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Astrocytes functionally interact with neurons and with other brain cells. Although not
electrically excitable, astrocytes display a complex repertoire of intracellular Ca2+ signalling …

The role of inhibitory circuits in hippocampal memory processing

L Topolnik, S Tamboli - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
GABAergic inhibitory circuits play an essential role in coordinating various hippocampal
functions. Several decades of work dedicated to a thorough characterization of hippocampal …

Basal forebrain cholinergic circuits and signaling in cognition and cognitive decline

EC Ballinger, M Ananth, DA Talmage, LW Role - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Recent work continues to place cholinergic circuits at center stage for normal executive and
mnemonic functioning and provides compelling evidence that the loss of cholinergic …

The hippocampus as a predictive map

KL Stachenfeld, MM Botvinick, SJ Gershman - Nature neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
A cognitive map has long been the dominant metaphor for hippocampal function, embracing
the idea that place cells encode a geometric representation of space. However, evidence for …

No consolidation without representation: Correspondence between neural and psychological representations in recent and remote memory

A Gilboa, M Moscovitch - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Memory systems consolidation is often conceived as the linear, time-dependent,
neurobiological shift of memory from hippocampal-cortical to cortico-cortical dependency …

Bidirectional perisomatic inhibitory plasticity of a Fos neuronal network

EL Yap, NL Pettit, CP Davis, MA Nagy, DA Harmin… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Behavioural experiences activate the FOS transcription factor in sparse populations of
neurons that are critical for encoding and recalling specific events,–. However, there is …

Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus

AE Comrie, LM Frank, K Kay - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Imagination is a biological function that is vital to human experience and advanced
cognition. Despite this importance, it remains unknown how imagination is realized in the …

Predictions transform memories: How expected versus unexpected events are integrated or separated in memory

O Bein, C Gasser, T Amer, A Maril, L Davachi - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Our brains constantly generate predictions about the environment based on prior
knowledge. Many of the events we experience are consistent with these predictions, while …

Frequency of theta rhythm is controlled by acceleration, but not speed, in running rats

E Kropff, JE Carmichael, EI Moser, MB Moser - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
The theta rhythm organizes neural activity across hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. A role
for theta oscillations in spatial navigation is supported by half a century of research reporting …