Human hippocampal theta oscillations and the formation of episodic memories

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 748-761

  Lega, Bradley C ^a   Jacobs, Joshua ^b   Kahana, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Free recall; Hippocampus; Oscillation; Subsequent memory effect; Theta rhythm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THETA RHYTHM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84858742602     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20937     Document Type: Article

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