Neural oscillations and information flow associated with synaptic plasticity.
- Author:
Tao ZHANG
1
Author Information
1. College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. zhangtao@nankai.edu.cn
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Animals;
Biological Clocks;
Brain;
physiology;
Cognition;
physiology;
Humans;
Learning;
physiology;
Memory;
physiology;
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena;
physiology;
Neural Pathways;
physiology;
Neuronal Plasticity;
physiology;
Synapses;
physiology;
Theta Rhythm;
physiology
- From:
Acta Physiologica Sinica
2011;63(5):412-422
- CountryChina
- Language:English
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Abstract:
As a rhythmic neural activity, neural oscillation exists all over the nervous system, in structures as diverse as the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, subcortical nuclei and sense organs. This review firstly presents some evidence that synchronous neural oscillations in theta and gamma bands reveal much about the origin and nature of cognitive processes such as learning and memory. And then it introduces the novel analyzing algorithms of neural oscillations, which is a directionality index of neural information flow (NIF) as a measure of synaptic plasticity. An example of application used such an analyzing algorithms of neural oscillations has been provided.
