Theta Phase Synchronization Is the Glue that Binds Human Associative Memory.

By Andrew Clouter, K. Shapiro, Simon Hanslmayr. 2017

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Neurophysiological mechanisms of cognition in the developing brain: Insights from intracranial EEG studies (2023, background): “Moreover, several scalp EEG studies have shown that sensory entrainment in the theta range (~5 Hz) can facilitate memory performance (Clouter et al., 2017; K ¨ oster, Martens et al., 2019; Roberts et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2018) as well as increase theta power (Roberts et al., 2018), theta-gamma…”
Rhythmic visual stimulation as a window into early brain development: A systematic review (2023, methodology): “…effects elicited by different stimulation frequencies, other studies have employed RVS with the aim to entrain the endogenous neural activity at specific frequencies, in order to associate them with different cognitive functions (Albouy et al., 2022; Clouter et al., 2017; K ¨ oster et al., 2019a).”
Rhythms of human attention and memory: An embedded process perspective (2022, methodology): “These studies demonstrate that the perceptual entrainment of theta oscillations enhances memory within the visual domain (Köster et al., 2019b), and across the visual and auditory domain (Clouter et al., 2017; Albouy et al., 2022).”
Multimodal neuroimaging of hierarchical cognitive control. (2024, background): “The emergence of oscillatory activity in neuronal populations is fundamental for orchestrating information processing by temporally locking to environmental information (Fiebelkorn et al., 2018; Helfrich et al., 2017) and potentially binding neuronal representations (Clouter et al., 2017).”
Hierarchical consciousness: the Nested Observer Windows model (2024, background): “…memory exhibit theta-frequency (4–8Hz) coherence with the hippocampus in order to laterally share information with hippocampus to be bound into an episodic memory (Schott et al. 2013, Backus et al. 2016, Clouter et al. 2017), but these regions fall out of coherence soon after encoding is completed.”
Sensory stimulation enhances visual working memory capacity (2024, unknown): “It has been shown that trains of rhythmic sensory stimuli across different modalities can be used to entrain endogenous delta 77 , theta 78 – 84 , alpha 83,85 – 90 , beta 91 , and gamma 92,93 oscillations, as well as to up-and down-regulate their frequency 94,95 .”
On Natural Attunement: Shared Rhythms Between the Brain and the Environment. (2023, unknown): “Behavioral re-sults of increased memory performance have been reported in several studies that examined neural entrainment using visuoauditory stimulation at the theta frequency (Clouter et al., 2017; Guan et al., 2018; K ¨ oster et al., 2019; Roberts et al., 2018).”
Stress enhances emotional memory-related theta oscillations in the medial temporal lobe (2021, background): “This binding relies on the precise timing of neural activity, which is assumed to be orchestrated through hippocampal theta activity (Clouter et al., 2017; Berens and Horner, 2017).”
Dynamic signatures of the Eureka effect: an EEG study (2021, unknown): “Recently, increased theta phase locking has been found connecting a large set of brain regions to support memory encoding and recall (Burke et al., 2013; Clouter et al., 2017; Solomon et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2018; Solomon et al., 2019).”
Modulating Human Memory via Entrainment of Brain Oscillations. (2019, methodology): “Panels in (A) reproduced, with permission, from [17], panels in (B) reproduced, with permission”