Fronto-parietal EEG coherence in theta and upper alpha reflect central executive functions of working memory.

By Paul Sauseng, Wolfgang Klimesch, Manuel Schabus, M. Doppelmayr. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2005

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EEG alpha oscillations: the inhibition-timing hypothesis. (2007, methodology): “If, however, subjects are instructed to perform specific operations from trial to trial (as, e.g., is the case in themanipulation task used by Sauseng et al., 2005b) traveling direction is from anterior to posterior regions.”
The Electrophysiological Dynamics of Interference during the Stroop Task (2008, background): “Several other studies showed that theta oscillations are critically related to central executive and working memory processes (Klimesch et al., 2006; Sauseng et al., 2005; Tesche & Karhu, 2000; Sarnthein et al., 1998).”
Developmental Stages and Sex Differences of White Matter and Behavioral Development through Adolescence: A Longitudinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Study (2013, positive): “…example, the superior longitudinal fasciculus connects frontal and parietal regions important for motor planning and initiation, spatial attention, working memory and language (Dosenbach et al., 2007; Sauseng et al., 2005; Schmahmann and Pandya, 2006; Schmahmann et al., 2007; Vincent et al., 2008).”
The Theta-Gamma Neural Code (2013, positive): “Although volume conduction confounds are often difficult to assess in human EEG and MEG studies, there are several encouraging findings indicating theta synchronization between frontal and posterior regions in working memory and error-monitoring tasks (Brzezicka et al., 2011; Cavanagh et al., 2009; ”
Electrical Neuroimaging Reveals Timing of Attentional Control Activity in Human Brain (2008, background): “linked to the working memory system [37], which is known to”
Distributed theta networks support the control of working memory: Evidence from scalp and intracranial EEG (2025, unknown): “…a key role in orchestrating cognitive control for successful task performance—a finding consistent with prior work linking FMT connectivity to executive function and behavioral outcomes (Fell & Axmacher, 2011; Cavanagh & Frank, 2014; Sauseng et al., 2005; Johnson et al., 2022; Gordon et al., 2018).”
Alpha phase coding supports feature binding during working memory maintenance (2026, unknown): “Additionally, theta-band synchrony is thought to support long-range communication between prefrontal and posterior brain regions, facilitating the integration of distributed mnemonic representations 53,54 .”
The Role of Fronto‐Central Theta Oscillations in Inter‐Sensory Selective Attention (2025, unknown): “…in the context of cognitive control tasks (Cona et al. 2020; Harris et al. 2017; Keller et al. 2017; Riddle et al. 2020; Sauseng et al. 2002, 2006; Sauseng, Klimesch, Schabus, et al. 2005; van Noordt et al. 2017) and it has been suggested that frontal theta phase synchronizes with brain regions,…”
Inhibitory control in WM gate-opening: Insights from alpha desynchronization and norepinephrine activity under atDCS stimulation (2024, background): “According to the frontoparietal network theory, frontal and parietal regions are crucial areas for working memory functions (Marek and Dosenbach, 2018), which has also been demonstrated in research studies (Gazzaley et al., 2004; Palva et al., 2011; Sauseng et al., 2005).”
Large-scale frontoparietal theta, alpha, and beta phase synchronization: A set of EEG differential characteristics for freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease? (2022, background): “In another study, a decrease in the anterior upper alpha oscillations was observed during central executive functions of WM (Sauseng et al., 2005).”
Parietal Alpha Oscillatory Peak Frequency Mediates the Effect of Practice on Visuospatial Working Memory Performance (2022, background): “Indeed, oscillatory activity in the theta band has been proved to increase during WM tasks in proportion to the difficulty or the cognitive load relative to the employed paradigms [33,75,118,119].”
How to refocus attention on working memory representations following interruptions—Evidence from frontal theta and posterior alpha oscillations (2021, background): “…indicated that, independent from the spatial position visual information was presented on, its cognitive manipulation in working memory is related to a suppression of oscillatory power in the alpha frequency range over posterior recording sites (Sauseng et al., 2005; Schneider et al., 2017).”