通过快速节奏的感觉刺激改变刺激时间,可在人类情景记忆中诱导出类似 STDP 的回忆表现。

Altering stimulus timing via fast rhythmic sensory stimulation induces STDP-like recall performance in human episodic memory.

机构信息

School for Psychology and Neuroscience and Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, UK; School of Psychology and Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

School of Psychology and Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

出版信息

Curr Biol. 2023 Aug 7;33(15):3279-3288.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.062. Epub 2023 Jul 17.

Abstract

Episodic memory provides humans with the ability to mentally travel back to the past, where experiences typically involve associations between multimodal information. Forming a memory of the association is thought to be dependent on modification of synaptic connectivity. Animal studies suggest that the strength of synaptic modification depends on spike timing between pre- and post-synaptic neurons on the order of tens of milliseconds, which is termed "spike-timing-dependent plasticity" (STDP). Evidence found in human in vitro studies suggests different temporal scales in long-term potentiation (LTP) and depression (LTD), compared with the critical time window of STDP in animals. In the healthy human brain, STDP-like effects have been shown in the motor cortex, visual perception, and face identity recognition. However, evidence in human episodic memory is lacking. We investigated this using rhythmic sensory stimulation to drive visual and auditory cortices at 37.5 Hz with four phase offsets. Visual relative to auditory cued recall accuracy was significantly enhanced in the 90° condition when the visual stimulus led at the shortest delay (6.67 ms). This pattern was reversed in the 270° condition when the auditory stimulus led at the shortest delay. Within cue modality, recall was enhanced when a stimulus of the corresponding modality led the shortest delay (6.67 ms) compared with the longest delay (20 ms). Our findings provide evidence for STDP in human episodic memory, which builds an important bridge from in vitro studies in animals to human memory behavior.

摘要

情景记忆使人类能够在心理上回溯过去,而过去的经历通常涉及多模态信息之间的关联。形成对关联的记忆被认为依赖于突触连接的修饰。动物研究表明,突触修饰的强度取决于前突触神经元和后突触神经元之间的尖峰时间,这被称为“尖峰时间依赖可塑性”(STDP)。在体外研究中发现的人类证据表明,与动物的 STDP 关键时间窗口相比,长时程增强(LTP)和长时程抑制(LTD)存在不同的时间尺度。在健康的人类大脑中,已经在运动皮层、视觉感知和面孔身份识别中显示出类似于 STDP 的效应。然而,在人类情景记忆中缺乏证据。我们使用节律性感觉刺激来以 37.5Hz 的频率驱动视觉和听觉皮层,并使用四个相位偏移,研究了这一点。当视觉刺激在最短延迟(6.67ms)时领先时,相对于听觉提示的视觉相对召回准确性在 90°条件下显著提高。当听觉刺激在最短延迟(6.67ms)时领先时,这种模式在 270°条件下反转。在提示模态内,当具有相应模态的刺激领先最短延迟(6.67ms)时,与最长延迟(20ms)相比,召回被增强。我们的发现为人类情景记忆中的 STDP 提供了证据,这为从动物体外研究到人类记忆行为建立了重要的桥梁。

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