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The importance of timing in segregated theta phase-coupling for cognitive performance

10/15/2021

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Polanía, Rafael, Michael A Nitsche, Carolin Korman, Giorgi Batsikadze, and Walter Paulus. 2012. 'The importance of timing in segregated theta phase-coupling for cognitive performance', Current Biology, 22: 1314-18.
 
Summary:        Neural oscillations are theorized to be necessary for interregional communication. Synchrony between the frontal and parietal cortex increases during cognitive control. Polanía et al. used a novel three electrode montage to synchronize the frontal and parietal cortex in-phase or anti-phase. Participants receive the stimulation during performance of a working memory task. In-phase stimulation increased behavioral performance and anti-phase stimulation decreased performance.
 
Pros:
  • Novel approach to test the causal role of frontal-parietal synchrony
  • Use of a control frequency and sham
  • Bi-directional manipulation is compelling
 
Open questions:
  • Do the benefit to working memory generalize to other domains?
  • Would the efficacy of stimulation be improved by individual frequency targeting?
 
Contributed by: Justin Riddle, PhD
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