Interacting spiral wave patterns underlie complex brain dynamics and are related to cognitive processing

Y Xu, X Long, J Feng, P Gong - Nature human behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
The large-scale activity of the human brain exhibits rich and complex patterns, but the
spatiotemporal dynamics of these patterns and their functional roles in cognition remain …

A spatiotemporal mechanism of visual attention: Superdiffusive motion and theta oscillations of neural population activity patterns

G Chen, P Gong - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Recent evidence has demonstrated that during visual spatial attention sampling, neural
activity and behavioral performance exhibit large fluctuations. To understand the origin of …

Fractional neural sampling as a theory of spatiotemporal probabilistic computations in neural circuits

Y Qi, P Gong - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
A range of perceptual and cognitive processes have been characterized from the
perspective of probabilistic representations and inference. To understand the neural circuit …

Noisy adaptation generates lévy flights in attractor neural networks

X Dong, T Chu, T Huang, Z Ji… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Lévy flights describe a special class of random walks whose step sizes satisfy a power-law
tailed distribution. As being an efficientsearching strategy in unknown environments, Lévy …

One-dimensional Lévy quasicrystal

P Chatterjee, R Modak - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Space-fractional quantum mechanics (SFQM) is a generalization of the standard
quantum mechanics when the Brownian trajectories in Feynman path integrals are replaced …

Probabilistic Decomposed Linear Dynamical Systems for Robust Discovery of Latent Neural Dynamics

Y Chen, N Mudrik, KA Johnsen, S Alagapan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Time-varying linear state-space models are powerful tools for obtaining mathematically
interpretable representations of neural signals. For example, switching and decomposed …

Distributed and dynamical communication: a mechanism for flexible cortico-cortical interactions and its functional roles in visual attention

S Ni, B Harris, P Gong - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Perceptual and cognitive processing relies on flexible communication among cortical areas;
however, the underlying neural mechanism remains unclear. Here we report a mechanism …

Are there jumps in evidence accumulation, and what, if anything, do they reflect psychologically? An analysis of Lévy Flights models of decision-making

AHH Rasanan, JA Rad, DK Sewell - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024 - Springer
According to existing theories of simple decision-making, decisions are initiated by
continuously sampling and accumulating perceptual evidence until a threshold value has …

Intermittent Search, Not Strict Lévy Flight, Evolves under Relaxed Foraging Distribution Constraints

W Campeau, AM Simons… - The American …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
The survival of an animal depends on its success as a forager, and understanding the
adaptations that result in successful foraging strategies is an enduring endeavour of …

[PDF][PDF] Bibliography on stable distributions, processes and related topics

J Nolan - Technical Report, 2010 - edspace.american.edu
The following sections are a start on organizing references on stable distributions by topic. It
is far from complete. Starting on page 23 there is an extensive list of papers, most on stable …