Selective Entrainment of Theta Oscillations in the Dorsal Stream Causally Enhances Auditory Working Memory Performance.

By P. Albouy, Aurélien Weiss, Sylvain Baillet, Robert J. Zatorre. 2017

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Causal Evidence for a Role of Theta and Alpha Oscillations in the Control of Working Memory (2020, background): “Rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been shown to cause local entrainment of both alpha [20] and theta [21] oscillations and to impact behavioral task performance when the frequency of stimulation is matched to neuronal oscillations evoked by the task demands [22–25].”
Causal Evidence for the Role of Neuronal Oscillations in Top-Down and Bottom-Up Attention (2019, unknown): “These studies have found that repeated TMS pulses focus oscillatory power at the targeted frequency (theta: Albouy et al., 2017; beta: Hanslmayr et al., 2014; alpha: Thut et al., 2011).”
Distributed theta networks support the control of working memory: Evidence from scalp and intracranial EEG (2025, unknown): “This frontoparietal synchrony, often measured by PLV and graph-theoretic metrics, supports the integration of executive and sensory processes and scales with WM performance (Albouy et al., 2017; Palva et al., 2010; Sauseng et al., 2005; Shin et al., 2022).”
Time-resolved parameterization of aperiodic and periodic brain activity (2022, unknown): “Brain oscillations and their rhythmic dynamics have been causally linked to individual behaviour and cognition (Albouy et al., 2017), and shape brain responses to sensory stimulation (Samaha et al., 2020).”
Cognitive state dependent enhancement of cognitive control with transcranial magnetic stimulation (2026, unknown): “The notion that the ongoing state of neural activity can shape the propagation of TMS-evoked activity has been demonstrated across sensorimotor 16,27,29,75 , attention 30–33 , and memory 34–36 domains.”
Multimodal neuroimaging of hierarchical cognitive control. (2024, methodology): “By applying rhythmic TMS concurrent with EEG, previous work found that TMS transiently drives a targeted brain rhythm (Albouy et al., 2017; Hanslmayr et al., 2014; Riddle et al., 2024; Thut et al., 2011).”
Hierarchical consciousness: the Nested Observer Windows model (2024, background): “This study, and others like it (Sauseng et al. 2009, Thut et al. 2011, Albouy et al. 2017), demonstrate that the rhythmic electrical activity of functional brain areas serves a causal role in cognition.”
Tuning out emotional distractors by tuning in theta rhythm: improving visual working memory using transcranial magnetic stimulation (2026, unknown): “2011, Albouy et al .”
Spatiotemporal patterns of theta-band activity during rapid-eye movement sleep: a magnetoencephalography analysis (2024, methodology): “…who performed an auditory working memory task in which participants had to listen to three tones (encoding period), hold the auditory stimuli in mind (retention period), and finally be prompted via a second set of 3 tones for a match-mismatch decision (retrieval period) (Albouy et al., 2017).”
Lateral prefrontal theta oscillations causally drive a computational mechanism underlying conflict expectation and adaptation (2024, unknown): “Inaddition, evidence hasshown thatusing TMS with speci ﬁ c experimental designs has improved other functions such as verbal memory 68 andworkingmemory 69,70 .”
No effects of the theta-frequency transcranial electrical stimulation for recall, attention control, and relation integration in working memory (2024, methodology): “Analogous eﬀects were observed for 5-Hz repetitive TMS in the visual (Riddle et al., 2020) and auditory matching task (Albouy et al., 2017).”
On Natural Attunement: Shared Rhythms Between the Brain and the Environment. (2023, unknown): “Albouy et al. (2017) linked theta oscillations in the dorsal stream to participants ’ auditory memory manipulation abilities.”
Rhythmic TMS as a Feasible Tool to Uncover the Oscillatory Signatures of Audiovisual Integration (2023, methodology): “As of today, combined rhTMS-EEG was used to uncover what resonating frequencies are best suited for, respectively, optimal propagation of motoric signals [67], auditory working memory performance [68], and visual detection [69,70].”
Mental Activity as the Bridge between Neural Biomarkers and Symptoms of Psychiatric Illness (2022, methodology): “59 To test for the temporal-and spatial-speci ﬁ city of the targeted network activity, we recommend that investigators use an arrhythmic pattern of control stimulation, 60 – 62 an active control frequency, 60,63,64 or deliver rhythmic TMS to a site of non-interest.”
Phase synchronized 6 Hz transcranial electric and magnetic stimulation boosts frontal theta activity and enhances working memory (2021, methodology): “With egard to rTMS, Albouy et al. (2017) applied theta (5 Hz) rTMS to the eft intraparietal sulcus during an auditory working memory task and bserved an increased entrainment of theta oscillations that was assoiated with behavioral enhancement on the task.”