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SUBMITTER: Vaz AP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7211396 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20200301 6482
Episodic memory retrieval is thought to rely on the replay of past experiences, yet it remains unknown how human single-unit activity is temporally organized during episodic memory encoding and retrieval. We found that ripple oscillations in the human cortex reflect underlying bursts of single-unit spiking activity that are organized into memory-specific sequences. Spiking sequences occurred repeatedly during memory formation and were replayed during successful memory retrieval, and this replay ...[more]