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Neural dynamics and brain function
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- NeurosciencePLoS ONEPeer-reviewed
A biologically plausible decision-making model based on interacting neural populations
Emre Baspinar, Gloria Cecchini, Michael DePass…·Alain Destexhe A
This paper introduces a biophysically plausible decision-making model using interacting neural populations in cortical layer 2/3, tested on human and macaque experiments.
- NeuroscienceNeuronPeer-reviewed
Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering
Ciana E. Deveau, Zhishang Zhou, Paul K. LaFosse…·Mark H. Histed
The paper shows recurrent cortical networks in mouse visual cortex encode natural sensory statistics by filtering input sequences rather than generating them.
8 citationstop 1% - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
REM sleep reconfigures large-scale network dynamics: a link to its suppressive role in epilepsy
Gaia Patrone, Maria Giovanna Canu, Gaia Burlando…·Gabriele Arnulfo
The paper examines how REM sleep affects large-scale brain network dynamics and links this to its reduced epileptogenicity by analyzing SEEG recordings from epilepsy patients.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.27.706763 - NeuroscienceCurrent BiologyPeer-reviewed
Temporal predictions as motor readouts of sensory predictions
Aaron Kaltenmaier, Quirin Gehmacher, Peter Kok…·Clare Press
The paper shows that temporal predictions in vision are linked to motor readouts and content-specific encoding in early visual areas during timing judgments.
- NeuroscienceEuropean Journal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Computational modelling of novelty detection in the mismatch negativity protocols and its impairments in schizophrenia
Ahmed Eissa, Jan Fredrik Kismul, Atle Bråthen Pentz…·Tuomo Mäki‐Marttunen
This study develops a spiking network model of auditory novelty detection and shows how SCZ-related cellular changes impair mismatch negativity.
DOI 10.1111/ejn.70453 - NeuroscienceCerebral CortexPeer-reviewed
Corticothalamic Layer 6 Controls Cortical Activity and Thalamic Firing Mode in a Bidirectional Manner
Ross Folkard, Emilio Ulises Isaías-Camacho, Alexander Groh
This study shows corticothalamic layer 6 can bidirectionally modulate cortical and thalamic activity through optogenetic manipulation in mice.
2 citationstop 3% - NeurosciencePsychophysiologyPeer-reviewed
How to Improve the Reliability of Aperiodic Parameter Estimates in M/EEG: A Method Comparison
Patrycja Kałamała, Grace M. Clements, Máté Gyurkovics…·Gabriele Gratton
This paper compares methods for estimating aperiodic parameters in M/EEG data and finds that allowing more peaks reduces reliability, proposing a censored regression approach to improve estimates.
5 citationstop 1% - NeuroscienceCell ReportsPeer-reviewed
Similar destabilization of neural dynamics under different general anesthetics
Adam J. Eisen, Alexandra G Bardon, J. J. Ballesteros…·Earl K. Miller
The paper shows that different anesthetics destabilize neural dynamics similarly, affecting recovery and low-frequency power, and linking this to unconsciousness.
9 citationstop 1% - NeuroscienceeNeuroPeer-reviewed
Aperiodicity in mouse CA1 and DG power spectra
Gustav Kühn, Hussin El Rashidy, Federico Calegari, Shonali Dhingra
The paper improves the FOOOF toolbox to better analyze aperiodic components in mouse hippocampal sub-regions, finding significant differences between CA1 and DG.
- NeuroscienceChaos Solitons & FractalsPeer-reviewed
Intrinsic noise reveals the stability of a neuronal network
Marcelo Bussotti Reyes, Ramón Huerta, Pedro V. Carelli…·Allen I. Selverston
The paper quantifies the stability of a neuronal network using intrinsic noise and shows that synaptic modifications do not affect its stability.
DOI 10.1016/j.chaos.2026.118083 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Inter- and intra-individual variability in structure-function coupling in human brain
Alina A. Studenova, Felix Ströckens, Luke Edwards…·Vadim Nikulin
The paper examines how structural brain features relate to functional activity across individuals and brain regions, finding distinct mechanisms for intra- and inter-individual variability in alpha power.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.25.707886 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Neural Oscillatory Signatures of Predictive Processing in Visual Statistical Learning
Pasqualetti Martina, Jakob C. B. Schwenk, Andrea Alamia
The paper investigates how neural oscillations relate to predictive processing in visual statistical learning, finding that alpha-band traveling waves correlate with cognitive strategies rather than specific prediction mechanisms.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.25.707965 - NeuroscienceScientific ReportsPeer-reviewed
Switching on Behavioral and Neural Rhythmicity to Retrieve Memories When the Number of Retained Items Exceeds Four
Takuya Ideriha, Junichi Ushiyama
The paper shows that neural rhythmicity aids memory retrieval when the number of candidate items exceeds four, based on reaction time and electrophysiological data.
DOI 10.1038/s41598-026-40959-9 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Cortico-thalamic excitatory-inhibitory dynamics generates α-wave transient patterns encoding anesthetic brain states
François David, Christophe Sun, Pierre-Olivier Michel…·David Holcman
This paper uses in vivo recordings and a neural mass model to show how thalamocortical excitatory-inhibitory dynamics generate α-wave patterns during anesthesia, linking EEG oscillations to network dynamics.
DOI 10.64898/2025.12.25.696413 - NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
β-bursting as a sensitive neural marker of inhibitory control in healthy older adults: a linear mixed-effects modelling and threshold-free cluster approach
Aliya C. M. Warden, Damian Cruse, Craig J. McAllister, Hayley J. MacDonald
This paper uses LMM-TFCE to analyze beta-bursting in older adults during inhibitory control tasks, revealing distinct spatiotemporal patterns not captured by averaged beta-power.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Diffuse predictions stabilize and reshape the neural code during working memory encoding
Nursena Ataseven, Şahcan Özdemir, Wouter Kruijne…·Elkan G. Akyürek
The paper investigates how diffuse predictions affect neural representations during working memory encoding, finding that they stabilize the neural code and alter its geometric layout.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.23.707359 - NeurosciencePLoS BiologyPeer-reviewed
Attention-related sampling of targets rhythmically alternates with increased susceptibility to co-occurring distractors
Zach V. Redding, Yun Ding, Ian C. Fiebelkorn
This study investigates how theta and alpha frequency neural activity modulates susceptibility to distractors during visual attention tasks using EEG in humans.
3 citationstop 2% - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Long-Term Neuromodulatory Effects on the Ionic Current Parameter Space of Oscillatory Neurons
Smita More-Potdar, Jorge Golowasch
The paper examines long-term neuromodulatory effects on ionic conductance parameter space in pyloric neurons, finding that neuromodulators and activity constrain this space in a cell-type-specific manner.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.22.707287 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Cortical oscillations reflect opponent ensemble dynamics through coordinated multifrequency activity
Jonathan H. Mishler, Morteza Salimi, Miranda Francoeur Koloski…·Dhakshin Ramanathan
The paper shows that multi-frequency amplitude co-fluctuations, called spectral motifs, better explain glutamatergic activity than single-frequency power, revealing opponent dynamics in cortical oscillations.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.20.707132 - NeuroscienceNeuroImagePeer-reviewed
Slow waves generation and propagation in a model of brain lesions
Gianluca Gaglioti, Leonardo Dalla Porta, Michele Angelo Colombo…·Marcello Massimini
This paper models post-lesional slow waves in brain networks, identifying mechanisms for their generation and propagation.
2 citationstop 4% - NeuroscienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Robust Input Disentanglement Through Dendritic Calcium-Mediated Action Potentials
Sima Hashemi, Shirin Shafiee, Christian Tetzlaff
The paper shows that dendritic calcium-mediated action potentials enable single neurons to disentangle mixed inputs by clustering temporally correlated synapses.
1 citation - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Physiologically realistic gamma activity produced in silico by weakening the PING attractor state
Scott Rich, Tarun Shriram, Steven A. Prescott
This paper modifies the PING mechanism to produce more realistic gamma oscillations by introducing biophysically motivated changes that reduce synchronization and increase transient activity.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.19.706788 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
A joint alpha power-phase dynamic shapes visual sensitivity
Henry A. Beale, Jason B. Mattingley, Anthony M. Harris
This study investigates how alpha-band oscillations affect visual sensitivity by combining power and phase in a model of pulsed-inhibition, finding that power suppresses sensitivity more than phase.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.19.706926 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Neural Representational Geometry of Feature Binding Operations
Laura V. Sainz, P. Michael Furlong, Madeleine E. Bartlett, Nicole Sandra-Yaffa Dumont
The paper evaluates six binding operations in neural networks to determine which produce factorized representational geometries observed in neural recordings.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.18.706604 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
CROCOpy - A Python toolbox for the analysis of CRitical Oscillations and COnnectivity
Vladislav O. Myrov, Felix Siebenhühner, Sheng Hua Wang…·Jaakko Matias Palva
CROCOpy is a Python toolbox for analyzing neuronal oscillations and functional connectivity metrics in electrophysiological data.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Learning reweights the decision dynamics of cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic pathways from deliberation to commitment
Zhuojun Yu, Jonathan E. Rubin, Timothy Verstynen
The paper simulates learning in a spiking cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic model to show how subnetworks reshape decision dynamics through dopamine-dependent plasticity, shifting strategies from deliberation to commitment.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.17.706272 - NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Dynamic Modulation of Beta-Band Oscillations in the LGN and Their Role in Visual Processing
Henry J. Alitto, Alyssa N. Sanchez, Prescott C. Alexander, W. Martin Usrey
The paper investigates beta-band oscillations in the LGN and V1 of macaques, finding they are suppressed by visual stimulation and attention, suggesting they represent signal suppression rather than enhancing visual processing.
- NeurosciencePLoS Computational BiologyPeer-reviewed
Information theoretic measures of neural and behavioural coupling predict representational drift
Kristine Heiney, Mónika Józsa, Michael E. Rule…·Timothy O’Leary
The paper uses information theory to analyze neural population dynamics and finds that stable neurons show higher redundancy and synergy in pairwise interactions with other neurons.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013130 - NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
A shared theta-rhythmic process for selective sampling of environmental information and internally stored information
Paul J. Cavanah, Ian C. Fiebelkorn
This paper investigates whether selective sampling of external and internal information shares a theta-rhythmic neural process using EEG and a dual-task design in humans.
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