{"id":149089,"date":"2022-10-29T14:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T19:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/dissociable-rhythmic-mechanisms-enhance-memory-for-conscious-and-nonconscious-perceptual-contents"},"modified":"2022-10-29T14:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T19:23:48","slug":"dissociable-rhythmic-mechanisms-enhance-memory-for-conscious-and-nonconscious-perceptual-contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/dissociable-rhythmic-mechanisms-enhance-memory-for-conscious-and-nonconscious-perceptual-contents","title":{"rendered":"Dissociable rhythmic mechanisms enhance memory for conscious and nonconscious perceptual contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dissociable-rhythmic-mechanisms-enhance-memory-for-conscious-and-nonconscious-perceptual-contents2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understanding the neural mechanisms of conscious and unconscious experience is a major goal of fundamental and translational neuroscience. Here, we target the early visual cortex with a protocol of noninvasive, high-resolution alternating current stimulation while participants performed a delayed target\u2013probe discrimination task and reveal dissociable mechanisms of mnemonic processing for conscious and unconscious perceptual contents. Entraining \u03b2-rhythms in bilateral visual areas preferentially enhanced short-term memory for seen information, whereas \u03b1-entrainment in the same region preferentially enhanced short-term memory for unseen information. The short-term memory improvements were frequency-specific and long-lasting. The results add a mechanistic foundation to existing theories of consciousness, call for revisions to these theories, and contribute to the development of nonpharmacological therapeutics for improving visual cortical processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the neural mechanisms of conscious and unconscious experience is a major goal of fundamental and translational neuroscience. Here, we target the early visual cortex with a protocol of noninvasive, high-resolution alternating current stimulation while participants performed a delayed target\u2013probe discrimination task and reveal dissociable mechanisms of mnemonic processing for conscious and unconscious perceptual contents. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}