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Electrical oscillations found to be critical for storing spatial memories in brain

April 28, 2011 by

Biologists have discovered that electrical oscillations in the brain, long thought to play a role in organizing cognitive functions such as memory, are critically important for the brain to store the information that allows us to navigate through our physical environment.

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