The brain continuously adapts its processing machinery to behavioural demands. To
achieve this, it rapidly modulates the operating mode of cortical circuits, controlling the way …

Music is a universal language that can elicit profound emotional and cognitive responses. In
this literature review, we explore the intricate relationship between music and the brain, from …

Entrainment of cortical rhythms to acoustic rhythms has been hypothesized to be the neural
correlate of pulse and meter perception in music. Dynamic attending theory first proposed …

A hallmark of non-rapid eye movement sleep is the coordinated interplay of slow oscillations
(SOs) and sleep spindles. Traditionally, a cortico-thalamo-cortical loop is suggested to …

Slow waves represent one of the prominent EEG signatures of non-rapid eye movement
(non-REM) sleep and are thought to play an important role in the cellular and network …

In the idling brain, neuronal circuits transition between periods of sustained firing (UP state)
and quiescence (DOWN state), a pattern the mechanisms of which remain unclear. Here we …

During non-REM sleep the EEG is dominated by slow waves which result from synchronized
UP and DOWN states in the component neurons of the thalamocortical network. This review …

It is widely accepted that corticothalamic neurons recruit the thalamus in slow oscillation, but
global slow-wave thalamocortical dynamics have never been experimentally shown. We …

How general anesthetics cause loss of consciousness is unknown. Some evidence points
toward effects on the neocortex causing “top-down” inhibition, whereas other findings …

All pathways targeting the thalamus terminate directly onto the thalamic projection cells. As
these cells lack local excitatory interconnections, their computations are fundamentally …