Abstract
We previously demonstrated that the phase of oscillations modulates neural activity representing categorical information using human intracranial recordings and high-frequency activity from local field potentials (Watrous et al., 2015b). We extend these findings here using human single-neuron recordings during a navigation task. Cells with firing rate modulations were observed primarily in entorhinal and frontal cortices. Using a novel oscillation detection algorithm, we identify phase-locked neural firing that encodes information about a person’s prospective navigational goal. These results provide evidence for contextual accounts of human MTL function at the single-neuron level and identify phase-coded neuronal firing as a component of the human neural code.