Direct Brain Stimulation Modulates Encoding States and Memory Performance in Humans.

ABSTRACT: People often forget information because they fail to effectively encode it. Here, we test the hypothesis that targeted electrical stimulation can modulate neural encoding states and subsequent memory outcomes. Using recordings from neurosurgical epilepsy patients with intracranially implanted electrodes, we trained multivariate classifiers to discriminate spectral activity during learning that predicted remembering from forgetting, then decoded neural activity in later sessions in which we applied stimulation during learning. Stimulation increased encoding-state estimates and recall if delivered when the classifier indicated low encoding efficiency but had the reverse effect if stimulation was delivered when the classifier indicated high encoding efficiency. Higher encoding-state estimates

SUBMITTER: Ezzyat Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8506915 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature