ERC Starting Grant · 2025
The PREfrontal CHRONometer for Organizing Working Memory
Working memory (WM) is a crucial part of human cognition, yet how the brain maintains and organizes different pieces of information is unresolved. I propose that spike-field coupling (SFC), which is the exact moment in time when a neuron spikes in relation to the surrounding neural oscillation (field), is what organizes WM content. Accordingly, different WM items or features are maintained through SFC at different phases of prefrontal brain oscillations. Metaphorically, the prefrontal oscillation represents a chest, where each phase is a drawer. Neural spiking opens the drawer, allowing specific data to be maintained separately from other data. While this idea is supported by animal…
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