Tracking neural correlates of successful learning over repeated sequence observations.

ABSTRACT: The neural correlates of memory formation in humans have long been investigated by exposing subjects to diverse material and comparing responses to items later remembered to those forgotten. Tasks requiring memorization of sensory sequences afford unique possibilities for linking neural memorization processes to behavior, because, rather than comparing across different items of varying content, each individual item can be examined across the successive learning states of being initially unknown, newly learned, and eventually, fully known. Sequence learning paradigms have not yet been exploited in this way, however. Here, we analyze the event-related potentials of subjects attempting to memorize sequences of visual locations over several blocks of repeated observation, with respect to pre-

SUBMITTER: Steinemann NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4921688 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature