| Thalamic pathways underlying prefrontal cortex–medial temporal lobe oscillatory interactions Oct 21st 2014, 00:00, by Nicholas A. Ketz, Ole Jensen, Randall C. O'Reilly Although everyone acknowledges that memory encoding and retrieval are not isolated functions of any one brain area [1,2], there are many challenges in moving beyond the traditional studies focusing on individual regions (e.g., concentrating on the prominent role of the hippocampus) to obtain insight into the nature of network-level dynamics. Fortunately, recent studies increasingly support the idea that oscillatory dynamics in multiple brain regions are associated with different aspects of memory encoding and retrieval [3–5], thus providing an important tool for further investigating these network-level dynamics (see Glossary). |
