Human Hippocampal Theta Oscillations during Movement without Visual Cues

Salman E Qasim; Joshua Jacobs

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2016.03.003

Human Hippocampal Theta Oscillations during Movement without Visual Cues

Neuron. 2016 Mar 16;89(6):1121-1123. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.03.003.

Authors

Salman E Qasim¹, Joshua Jacobs²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 26985718
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.03.003

Abstract

The hippocampus exhibits theta oscillations when animals navigate. Vass et al. (2016) discovered that theta oscillations are also present when humans are moved through a virtual environment without sensory feedback, indicating that theta oscillations have a general role in spatial cognition beyond sensorimotor processing.

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MeSH terms

Brain Waves / physiology*
Cues*
Female
Hippocampus / physiopathology*
Humans
Male
Space Perception / physiology*
Spatial Memory / physiology*
Spatial Navigation / physiology*

Grants and funding

R01 MH104606/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States