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Dec 2013
December 17, 2013
Newman et al used the drug scopolamine to disrupt theta-gamma coupling in the medial entorhinal cortex of rats. Gamma power at the peak of theta was reduced and shifted to subsequent phases. Scopolamine also seemed to reduce the rats’ familiarity with the testing enclosure. The data support the hypothesis that memory encoding and retrieval occur at different theta phases.
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