Causal and directional elements of global brain dynamics
John Kochalka, Anish Mitra, Alexander D. White, Yu Wang, Kaiwen Sheng, Yukun Alex Hao, Chandan S. Kadur, Charu Ramakrishnan, Melissa Hernandez, Wendy Wenderski, Ki Eun Po, Nadya Andini, Thomas R. Clandinin, Michael Z. Lin, Shaul Druckmann, Karl A. Deisseroth
The paper identifies directional elements in brain dynamics that encode causal control hierarchies and show robustness to neural state manipulations.
bioRxiv · May 28, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience