How does the human brain coordinate the activity of distributed neuronal populations to form, consolidate, and recall memories? Researchers from the CNRS (CerCo, Toulouse) and their collaborators at the ICM (Paris) and the University of Oxford (UK) discovered a novel mechanism: slow oscillatory bursts (~2 Hz) in the hippocampus, which dynamically structure brain activity during learning and recall. Published in the journal Neuron, these findings uncover a multi-scale mechanism linking memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval in humans.

Link to article: https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00375-2