Dynamic models of large-scale brain activity

M Breakspear - Nature neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Movement, cognition and perception arise from the collective activity of neurons within
cortical circuits and across large-scale systems of the brain. While the causes of single …

Rhythmic attentional scanning

P Fries - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Sensory processing, short-term memory, and decision-making often deal with multiple items,
or options, simultaneously. I review evidence suggesting that the brain handles such …

High figure-of-merit and power generation in high-entropy GeTe-based thermoelectrics

B Jiang, W Wang, S Liu, Y Wang, C Wang, Y Chen… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The high-entropy concept provides extended, optimized space of a composition, resulting in
unusual transport phenomena and excellent thermoelectric performance. By tuning electron …

Wave-like dopamine dynamics as a mechanism for spatiotemporal credit assignment

AA Hamid, MJ Frank, CI Moore - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Significant evidence supports the view that dopamine shapes learning by encoding reward
prediction errors. However, it is unknown whether striatal targets receive tailored dopamine …

The many characters of visual alpha oscillations

MS Clayton, N Yeung… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A central feature of human brain activity is the alpha rhythm: a 7–13 Hz oscillation observed
most notably over occipitoparietal brain regions during periods of eyes‐closed rest. Alpha …

Metastable brain waves

JA Roberts, LL Gollo, RG Abeysuriya, G Roberts… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Traveling patterns of neuronal activity—brain waves—have been observed across a breadth
of neuronal recordings, states of awareness, and species, but their emergence in the human …

Cortical travelling waves: mechanisms and computational principles

L Muller, F Chavane, J Reynolds… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Multichannel recording technologies have revealed travelling waves of neural activity in
multiple sensory, motor and cognitive systems. These waves can be spontaneously …

Ultrasensitive field‐effect biosensors enabled by the unique electronic properties of graphene

X Zhang, Q Jing, S Ao, GF Schneider, D Kireev… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This review provides a critical overview of current developments on nanoelectronic
biochemical sensors based on graphene. Composed of a single layer of conjugated carbon …

Large-scale, closed-loop interrogation of neural circuits underlying cognition

D Khodagholy, JJ Ferrero, J Park, Z Zhao… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Cognitive functions are increasingly understood to involve coordinated activity patterns
between multiple brain regions, and their disruption by neuropsychiatric disorders is …

Rotating waves during human sleep spindles organize global patterns of activity that repeat precisely through the night

L Muller, G Piantoni, D Koller, SS Cash, E Halgren… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
During sleep, the thalamus generates a characteristic pattern of transient, 11-15 Hz sleep
spindle oscillations, which synchronize the cortex through large-scale thalamocortical loops …