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SUBMITTER: Cashdollar N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2787111 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cashdollar Nathan N Malecki Ulrike U Rugg-Gunn Fergus J FJ Duncan John S JS Lavie Nilli N Duzel Emrah E
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20091116 48
Recent studies in humans and animals raise the possibility that actively maintaining a detailed memory of a scene within working memory may require the hippocampus, a brain structure better known for its role in long-term memory. We show that the hippocampus is behaviorally and functionally critical for configural-relational (CR) maintenance by orchestrating the synchrony of occipital and temporal brain regions in the theta-frequency range. Using magnetoencephalography in healthy adults and pati ...[more]