Anton Filipchuk

The paper shows that cortical population events are generated by hierarchical modularity and distance-dependent connectivity, not attractor dynamics.

The paper identifies biomarkers of anxiety reduction following a virtual reality intervention, showing increased midline beta power, heart rate variability, and brain-to-heart connectivity correlate with therapeutic response.

The paper examines how sound processing in the auditory cortex changes during slow wave sleep compared to wakefulness, finding that sound representations remain geometrically distinct but are dampened and intermittently gated.

The paper shows that awake cortex forms stimulus-specific neuronal assemblies for sensory inputs, distinct from ongoing activity, while anesthesia blurs this distinction.

The paper challenges the attractor model of cortical activity by showing core neurons have weaker connections and funnel information flows instead of forming strong recurrent networks.

The paper shows that V1 interneurons suppress auditory signals in the absence of visual input but boost visual responses when auditory and visual stimuli coincide, enabling cross-modal event detection.