Move your body, boost your brain: the positive impact of physical activity on cognition across all age groups

F Festa, S Medori, M Macrì - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
While the physical improvements from exercise have been well documented over the years,
the impact of physical activity on mental health has recently become an object of interest …

The versatile wayfinder: prefrontal contributions to spatial navigation

EZ Patai, HJ Spiers - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) supports decision-making, goal tracking, and planning. Spatial
navigation is a behavior that taxes these cognitive processes, yet the role of the PFC in …

Months-long tracking of neuronal ensembles spanning multiple brain areas with Ultra-Flexible Tentacle Electrodes

TB Yasar, P Gombkoto, AL Vyssotski… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract We introduce Ultra-Flexible Tentacle Electrodes (UFTEs), packing many
independent fibers with the smallest possible footprint without limitation in recording depth …

Spatial working memory in humans depends on theta and high gamma synchronization in the prefrontal cortex

I Alekseichuk, Z Turi, GA De Lara, A Antal, W Paulus - Current biology, 2016 - cell.com
Previous, albeit correlative, findings have shown that the neural mechanisms underlying
working memory critically require cross-structural and cross-frequency coupling …

Communication between brain areas based on nested oscillations

M Bonnefond, S Kastner, O Jensen - eneuro, 2017 - eneuro.org
Unraveling how brain regions communicate is crucial for understanding how the brain
processes external and internal information. Neuronal oscillations within and across brain …

Hippocampal-prefrontal theta oscillations support memory integration

AR Backus, JM Schoffelen, S Szebényi, S Hanslmayr… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Integration of separate memories forms the basis of inferential reasoning—an essential
cognitive process that enables complex behavior. Considerable evidence suggests that both …

Organization of prefrontal network activity by respiration-related oscillations

J Biskamp, M Bartos, JF Sauer - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) integrates information from cortical and sub-cortical
areas and contributes to the planning and initiation of behaviour. A potential mechanism for …

Theta power and theta‐gamma coupling support long‐term spatial memory retrieval

U Vivekananda, D Bush, JA Bisby, S Baxendale… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hippocampal theta oscillations have been implicated in spatial memory function in both
rodents and humans. What is less clear is how hippocampal theta interacts with higher …

Acetylcholine release in prefrontal cortex promotes gamma oscillations and theta–gamma coupling during cue detection

WM Howe, HJ Gritton, NA Lusk, EA Roberts… - Journal of …, 2017 - jneurosci.org
The capacity for using external cues to guide behavior (“cue detection”) constitutes an
essential aspect of attention and goal-directed behavior. The cortical cholinergic input …

Frontal midline theta rhythm and gamma power changes during focused attention on mental calculation: an MEG beamformer analysis

R Ishii, L Canuet, T Ishihara, Y Aoki, S Ikeda… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Frontal midline theta rhythm (Fmθ) appears widely distributed over medial prefrontal areas
in EEG recordings, indicating focused attention. Although mental calculation is often used as …