Saccades are phase-locked to alpha oscillations in the occipital and medial temporal lobe during successful memory encoding

Staudigl, Tobias; Hartl, Elisabeth; Noachtar, Soheyl; Doeller, Christian F. und Jensen, Ole (21. Dezember 2017): Saccades are phase-locked to alpha oscillations in the occipital and medial temporal lobe during successful memory encoding.
In: PLOS Biology 15(12) , S. 1-15

Abstract

Efficient sampling of visual information requires a coordination of eye movements and ongoing brain oscillations. Using intracranial and magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings, we show that saccades are locked to the phase of visual alpha oscillations and that this coordination is related to successful mnemonic encoding of visual scenes. Furthermore, parahippocampal and retrosplenial cortex involvement in this coordination reflects effective vision-to-memory mapping, highlighting the importance of neural oscillations for the interaction between visual and memory domains.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Publikationsform: Publisher's Version
• Fakultät: Psychologie und Pädagogik > Department Psychologie
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 150 Psychologie
• Sprache: Englisch