Alpha Oscillations Track the Projection of Reactivated Memories into Conscious Awareness.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience April 15, 2026 Benjamin J Griffiths
By definition, episodic memory is a conscious phenomenon. Memory traces reactivated by the hippocampus and reinstated in the sensory cortices need to enter conscious awareness for them to be re-experienced and overtly recalled. However, it remains unclear whether such reactivation in-and-of-itself ensures that memories will be overtly recalled. To investigate this, magnetoencephalography...