Topic: phase-dependent coding

Experimental evidence suggests that the brain is able to encode memories in the phase of ongoing low-frequency oscillations. Recently, trainable recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have emerged as promising models of how neural circuits process information. However, short-term memory maintenance in these networks has mostly been implemented through static attractors. Thus, it remains unclear if and how RNNs can encode memories in the relative phase of oscillations. Here we show that such phase-dependent coding can arise through the training of RNNs on memory tasks. We characterize how the emerg