Theta–gamma coupling increases during the learning of item–context associations

By Adriano B. L. Tort, Robert W. Komorowski, J. Manns, Nancy J. Kopell, Howard Eichenbaum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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The Theta-Gamma Neural Code (2013, positive): “Theta/gamma coupling has been shown to be functionally important for long-term memory processes (Tort et al., 2009).”
Untangling cross-frequency coupling in neuroscience (2014, background): “The modulation of CFC by the task or experimental condition has then been taken as an indication of its physiological role [4,5,7,28].”
The role of phase synchronization in memory processes (2011, background): “First, experiments in which rats had to learn reward contingencies of odour cues as a function of spatial context showed that coupling of gamma amplitude to theta phase in the hippocampus is more precise after learning item–context associations than before learnin”
Comorbidity: A network perspective (2010, background): “Taking all results together, it is likely that overlapping symptoms play a more important role in explaining comorbidity than was originally thought.”
Mechanisms of Gamma Oscillations (2012, methodology): “The strength of theta-gamma coupling in the hippocampus and striatum of the rat was affected by task demands (Tort et al. 2008, 2009).”
Neurophysiological and Computational Principles of Cortical Rhythms in Cognition (2010, background): “Furthermore, intracranial EEG recording in epilepsy patients (287, 854) as well as rat (961, 1045) and monkey physiology (486) indicate that gamma-band oscillations and gamma-theta coupling may also contribute to learning and memory processes.”
Neural Cross-Frequency Coupling: Connecting Architectures, Mechanisms, and Functions. (2015, positive): “PAC increases during learning of item – context associations [66] and m:n PPC between theta and low-and mid-gamma frequencies is present during maze exploration, on top of a PAC effect [67].”
Theta activity and cognitive functioning: Integrating evidence from resting-state and task-related developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research (2024, background): “Moreover, the strength of theta-gamma coupling has been found to predict the accuracy of learning performance (Igarashi et al., 2014; Tort et al., 2009).”