image: The image illustrates the central role of sharp wave ripples in Human memory formation and recall. Ripples are brief oscillatory fluctuations in electric field reflecting rapid bursts of neuronal activity in the hippocampus, a brain region central to human episodic memory. During the time window of the ripple, the cortex and hippocampus interact to reinstate the content of the memory. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 16, 2019, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Norman at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and colleagues was titled, "Hippocampal sharp-wave ripples linked to visual episodic recollection in humans." view more
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