Percepts to recollections: Insights from single neuron recordings in the human brain

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 427-436

  Suthana, Nanthia ^a,b   Fried, Itzhak ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE THEORY; EPISODIC MEMORIES; HUMAN BRAIN; NEURONAL CODES; RESPONSE PROPERTIES; SENSORY INFORMATION; SINGLE NEURON; TEMPORAL LOBES;

LINEARIZATION;

NEURONS;

EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPERIENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84864038734     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.06.006     Document Type: Review

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