Movement-related theta rhythm in humans: Coordinating self-directed hippocampal learning

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Kaplan, Raphael ^a,b,c   Doeller, Christian F ^b,c,d   Barnes, Gareth R ^c,e   Litvak, Vladimir ^c,e   Düzel, Emrah ^b,f,g   Bandettini, Peter A ^a   Burgess, Neil ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LEARNING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; THETA RHYTHM;

RODENTIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857479034     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001267     Document Type: Article

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