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Theta power and theta-gamma coupling support spatial memory retrieval

Vivekananda, U.; Bush, D.; Bisby, J. A.; Baxendale, S.; Rodionov, R.; Diehl, B.; Chowdhury, F. A.; McEvoy, A. W.; Miserocchi, A.; Walker, M.; Burgess, N.

2019-08-12 neuroscience
10.1101/732735 bioRxiv
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Hippocampal theta oscillations have been implicated in spatial memory function in both rodents and humans. What is less clear is how hippocampal theta interacts with higher frequency oscillations during spatial memory function, and how this relates to subsequent behaviour. Here we asked ten human epilepsy patients undergoing intracranial EEG recording to perform a desk-top virtual reality spatial memory task, and found that increased theta power in two discrete bands ( low 2-5Hz and high 6-9Hz) during cued retrieval was associated with improved task performance. Similarly, increased coupling between low theta phase and gamma amplitude during the same period was associated with improved task performance. These results support a role of theta oscillations and theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in human spatial memory function.

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