Already in his first report on the discovery of the human EEG in 1929, Berger showed great
interest in further elucidating the functional roles of the alpha and beta waves for normal …

Neural oscillations are ubiquitously observed in the mammalian brain, but it has proven
difficult to tie oscillatory patterns to specific cognitive operations. Notably, the coupling …

The ability to focus on and understand one talker in a noisy social environment is a critical
social-cognitive capacity, whose underlying neuronal mechanisms are unclear. We …

Resting-state functional connectivity studies with fMRI showed that the brain is intrinsically
organized into large-scale functional networks for which the hemodynamic signature is …

Abstract Serotonergic hallucinogens, such as (+)-lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin, and
mescaline, are somewhat enigmatic substances. Although these drugs are derived from …

Brain operation is profoundly rhythmic. Oscillations of neural excitability shape sensory,
motor, and cognitive processes. Intrinsic oscillations also entrain to external rhythms …

According to the predictive coding theory, top-down predictions are conveyed by backward
connections and prediction errors are propagated forward across the cortical hierarchy …

Like the visual and the sensorimotor systems, the auditory system exhibits pronounced
alpha-like resting oscillatory activity. Due to the relatively small spatial extent of auditory …

Synaptic inhibition, brought about by a rich variety of interneuron types, counters excitation,
modulates the gain, timing, tuning, bursting properties of principal cell firing, and exerts …

Many environmental stimuli present a quasi-rhythmic structure at different timescales that the
brain needs to decompose and integrate. Cortical oscillations have been proposed as …