Medial temporal theta state before an event predicts episodic encoding success in humans

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 106; no. 13; pp. 5365 - 5370
• Main Authors: Guderian, Sebastian, Schott, Björn H, Richardson-Klavehn, Alan, Düzel, Emrah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 31.03.2009; National Acad Sciences
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Amplitude; Analysis; Behavioral neuroscience; Biological Sciences; Brain; electrophysiology; Female; Hippocampus; Human subjects; Humans; Magnetoencephalography; Male; Memory; Memory - physiology; Memory encoding; Memory recall; Mental Recall; Mental stimulation; Neurosciences; Sensors; Temporal lobe; Temporal Lobe - physiology; Theta Rhythm; Time windows; Young Adult

We report a human electrophysiological brain state that predicts successful memory for events before they occur. Using magnetoencephalographic recordings of brain activity during episodic memory encoding, we show that amplitudes of theta oscillations shortly preceding the onsets of words were higher...