Paper Info
Title
Binding of verbal and spatial information in human working memory involves large-scale neural synchronization at theta frequency.
Abstract
Whether neural synchronization is engaged in binding of verbal and spatial information in working memory remains unclear. The present study analyzed oscillatory power and phase synchronization of electroencephalography (EEG) recorded from subjects performing a working memory task. Subjects were required to maintain both verbal (letters) and spatial (locations) information of visual stimuli while the verbal and spatial information were either bound or separate. We found that frontal theta power, and large-scale theta phase synchronization between bilateral frontal regions and between the left frontal and right temporal–parietal regions were greater for maintaining bound relative to separate information. However, the same effects were not observed in the gamma band. These results suggest that working memory binding involves large-scale neural synchronization at the theta band.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.02.011
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
Binding,EEG,Synchronization,Theta,Working memory
Spatial analysis,Developmental psychology,Synchronization,Cortical Synchronization,Working memory,Psychology,Phase synchronization,Cognitive psychology,Theta rhythm,Electroencephalography,Visual perception
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
4
1053-8119
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.54
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiang Wu181.59
Xiangchuan Chen2213.07
Zhihao Li3111.62
Shihui Han413218.96
Daren Zhang5345.65