Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0056045

Zusammenfassung

Until very recently, invasive microelectrode recordings were restricted to animal electrophysiology where they have produced an immensely rich body of insight into the basic mechanisms underlying cognitive brain function. Recent recordings of single neuron activity in humans, on the other hand, have yielded unprecedented findings related to higher cognitive functions that are found specifically in humans. One key finding was that neurons in the medial human temporal lobe explicitly encode representations of our environment in the form of object categories and beyond this even abstract ...