Memory formation by neuronal synchronization

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 170-182

  Axmacher, Nikolai ^a   Mormann, Florian ^a   Fernández, Guillen ^b   Elger, Christian E ^a   Fell, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Declarative memory; Gamma oscillation; Hippocampus; Neuronal synchronization; Phase synchronization; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAMMA RHYTHM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SUBICULUM; THETA RHYTHM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 33745900504     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2006.01.007     Document Type: Review

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