New technologies to record electrical activity from the brain on a massive scale offer
tremendous opportunities for discovery. Electrical measurements of large-scale brain …

Does the brain use a firing rate code or a spike timing code? Considering this controversial
question from an epistemological perspective, I argue that progress has been hampered by …

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is one of the most popular techniques for the
analysis of resting state FMRI data because it has several advantageous properties when …

Cognitive functions rely on the coordinated activity of neurons in many brain regions, but the
interactions between cortical areas are not yet well understood. Here we investigated …

Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical, and psychological approaches to vision
rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the …

Neuronal gamma-band synchronization is found in many cortical areas, is induced by
different stimuli or tasks, and is related to several cognitive capacities. Thus, it appears as if …

Most of our knowledge about the functional organization of neuronal systems is based on
the analysis of the firing patterns of individual neurons that have been recorded one by one …

Cortical activity and perception are not driven by the external stimulus alone; rather sensory
information has to be integrated with various other internal constraints such as expectations …

Theories of binding have recently come into the focus of the consciousness debate. In this
review, we discuss the potential relevance of temporal binding mechanisms for sensory …

During various states of vigilance, brain oscillations are grouped together through reciprocal
connections between the neocortex and thalamus. The coherent activity in corticothalamic …