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Duecker K, Doelling KB, Breska A, Coffey EBJ, Sivarao DV, Zoefel B. Challenges and Approaches in the Study of Neural Entrainment. J Neurosci 2024; 44:e1234242024. [PMID: 39358026 PMCID: PMC11450538 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1234-24.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2024] [Revised: 07/19/2024] [Accepted: 07/23/2024] [Indexed: 10/04/2024] Open
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When exposed to rhythmic stimulation, the human brain displays rhythmic activity across sensory modalities and regions. Given the ubiquity of this phenomenon, how sensory rhythms are transformed into neural rhythms remains surprisingly inconclusive. An influential model posits that endogenous oscillations entrain to external rhythms, thereby encoding environmental dynamics and shaping perception. However, research on neural entrainment faces multiple challenges, from ambiguous definitions to methodological difficulties when endogenous oscillations need to be identified and disentangled from other stimulus-related mechanisms that can lead to similar phase-locked responses. Yet, recent years have seen novel approaches to overcome these challenges, including computational modeling, insights from dynamical systems theory, sophisticated stimulus designs, and study of neuropsychological impairments. This review outlines key challenges in neural entrainment research, delineates state-of-the-art approaches, and integrates findings from human and animal neurophysiology to provide a broad perspective on the usefulness, validity, and constraints of oscillatory models in brain-environment interaction.
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- Katharina Duecker
- Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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- Université Paris Cité, Institut Pasteur, AP-HP, Inserm, Fondation Pour l'Audition, Institut de l'Audition, IHU reConnect, Paris F-75012, France
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- Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee 37614
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- Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), UMR 5549 CNRS - Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse F-31052, France
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Kristensen TD, Ambrosen KS, Raghava JM, Syeda WT, Dhollander T, Lemvigh CK, Bojesen KB, Barber AD, Nielsen MØ, Rostrup E, Pantelis C, Fagerlund B, Glenthøj BY, Ebdrup BH. Structural and functional connectivity in relation to executive functions in antipsychotic-naïve patients with first episode schizophrenia and levels of glutamatergic metabolites. SCHIZOPHRENIA (HEIDELBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 10:72. [PMID: 39217180 PMCID: PMC11366027 DOI: 10.1038/s41537-024-00487-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2024] [Accepted: 07/23/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
Abstract
Patients with schizophrenia exhibit structural and functional dysconnectivity but the relationship to the well-documented cognitive impairments is less clear. This study investigates associations between structural and functional connectivity and executive functions in antipsychotic-naïve patients experiencing schizophrenia. Sixty-four patients with schizophrenia and 95 matched controls underwent cognitive testing, diffusion weighted imaging and resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging. In the primary analyses, groupwise interactions between structural connectivity as measured by fixel-based analyses and executive functions were investigated using multivariate linear regression analyses. For significant structural connections, secondary analyses examined whether functional connectivity and associations with executive functions also differed for the two groups. In group comparisons, patients exhibited cognitive impairments across all executive functions compared to controls (p < 0.001), but no group difference were observed in the fixel-based measures. Primary analyses revealed a groupwise interaction between planning abilities and fixel-based measures in the left anterior thalamic radiation (p = 0.004), as well as interactions between cognitive flexibility and fixel-based measures in the isthmus of corpus callosum and cingulum (p = 0.049). Secondary analyses revealed increased functional connectivity between grey matter regions connected by the left anterior thalamic radiation (left thalamus with pars opercularis p = 0.018, and pars orbitalis p = 0.003) in patients compared to controls. Moreover, a groupwise interaction was observed between cognitive flexibility and functional connectivity between contralateral regions connected by the isthmus (precuneus p = 0.028, postcentral p = 0.012), all p-values corrected for multiple comparisons. We conclude that structural and functional connectivity appear to associate with executive functions differently in antipsychotic-naïve patients with schizophrenia compared to controls.
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- Tina D Kristensen
- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark.
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- Functional Imaging Unit, Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark
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- Melbourne Brain Center Imaging Unit, Department of Radiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Developmental Imaging, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
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- Department of Psychiatry, Zucker Hillside Hospital and Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Northwell, NY, USA
- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mental Health Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hellerup, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Groh JM, Schmehl MN, Caruso VC, Tokdar ST. Signal switching may enhance processing power of the brain. Trends Cogn Sci 2024; 28:600-613. [PMID: 38763804 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Revised: 04/17/2024] [Accepted: 04/21/2024] [Indexed: 05/21/2024]
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Our ability to perceive multiple objects is mysterious. Sensory neurons are broadly tuned, producing potential overlap in the populations of neurons activated by each object in a scene. This overlap raises questions about how distinct information is retained about each item. We present a novel signal switching theory of neural representation, which posits that neural signals may interleave representations of individual items across time. Evidence for this theory comes from new statistical tools that overcome the limitations inherent to standard time-and-trial-pooled assessments of neural signals. Our theory has implications for diverse domains of neuroscience, including attention, figure binding/scene segregation, oscillations, and divisive normalization. The general concept of switching between functions could also lend explanatory power to theories of grounded cognition.
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- Jennifer M Groh
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27705, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27705, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27705, USA; Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27705, USA; Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27705, USA; Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27705, USA.
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27705, USA; Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27705, USA; Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27705, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27705, USA
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Kraikivski P. A Mechanistic Model of Perceptual Binding Predicts That Binding Mechanism Is Robust against Noise. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 26:133. [PMID: 38392388 PMCID: PMC10888151 DOI: 10.3390/e26020133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2023] [Revised: 01/28/2024] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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The concept of the brain's own time and space is central to many models and theories that aim to explain how the brain generates consciousness. For example, the temporo-spatial theory of consciousness postulates that the brain implements its own inner time and space for conscious processing of the outside world. Furthermore, our perception and cognition of time and space can be different from actual time and space. This study presents a mechanistic model of mutually connected processes that encode phenomenal representations of space and time. The model is used to elaborate the binding mechanism between two sets of processes representing internal space and time, respectively. Further, a stochastic version of the model is developed to investigate the interplay between binding strength and noise. Spectral entropy is used to characterize noise effects on the systems of interacting processes when the binding strength between them is varied. The stochastic modeling results reveal that the spectral entropy values for strongly bound systems are similar to those for weakly bound or even decoupled systems. Thus, the analysis performed in this study allows us to conclude that the binding mechanism is noise-resilient.
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- Pavel Kraikivski
- Division of Systems Biology, Academy of Integrated Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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Sharma H, Azouz R. Global and local neuronal coding of tactile information in the barrel cortex. Front Neurosci 2024; 17:1291864. [PMID: 38249584 PMCID: PMC10796699 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1291864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/24/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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During tactile sensation in rodents, the whisker movements across surfaces give rise to intricate whisker motions that encompass discrete and transient stick-slip events, effectively conveying valuable information regarding surface properties. These surface characteristics are transformed into cortical neuronal responses. This study examined the coding strategies underlying these transformations in rat whiskers. We found that changes in surface coarseness modified the number and magnitude of stick-slip events, which in turn both modulated properties of neuronal responses. Global changes in the number of stick-slip events primarily affected neuronal discharge rates and the degree of neuronal synchronization. In contrast, local changes in the magnitude of stick-slip events affected the transformation of these kinematic and kinetic characteristics into neuronal discharges. Most cortical neurons exhibited surface coarseness selectivity through global and local stick-slip event properties. However, this selectivity varied across coding strategies in the same neurons, given that each coding strategy reflected different aspects of changes in whisker-surface interactions. The degree of spatial similarity in surface coarseness preference in adjacently recorded neurons differed among these coding strategies. Adjacently recorded neurons exhibited the same surface coarseness preference in their firing rates but not through other coding strategies. Through these results, we were able to show that local stick-slip event properties contribute to texture discrimination, complementing and surpassing global coding in this context. These findings suggest that the representation of surface coarseness in the cortex may rely on concurrent coding strategies that integrate tactile information across different spatiotemporal scales.
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Southern District, Israel
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Meital-Kfir N, Pezaris JS. The Influence of Phosphene Synchrony in Driving Object Binding in a Simulation of Artificial Vision. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2023; 64:5. [PMID: 38051263 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.64.15.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2023] Open
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Purpose Electrical microstimulation techniques used in visual prostheses are designed to restore visual function following acquired blindness. Patterns of induced focal percepts, known as phosphenes, are achieved by applying localized electrical pulses to the visual pathway to bypass the impaired site in order to convey images from the external world. Here, we use a simulation of artificial vision to manipulate relationships between individual phosphenes to observe the effects on object binding and perception. We hypothesize that synchronous phosphene presentation will facilitate object perception as compared to asynchronous presentation. Methods A model system that tracks gaze position of normal, sighted participants to present patterns of phosphenes on a computer screen was used to simulate prosthetic vision. Participants performed a reading task at varying font sizes (1.1-1.4 logMAR) and under varying levels of phosphene temporal noise while reading accuracy and speed were measured. Results Reading performance was significantly affected by temporal noise in phosphene presentation, with increasing desynchronization leading to lower reading scores. A drop in performance was also observed when the total latency between the gaze position and phosphene update was increased without adding temporal noise. Conclusions Object perception (here, text perception) is enhanced with synchronously presented phosphenes as compared to asynchronously presented ones. These results are fundamental for developing an efficient temporal pattern of stimulation and for the creation of high-fidelity prosthetic vision.
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- Noya Meital-Kfir
- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Pinotsis DA, Fridman G, Miller EK. Cytoelectric Coupling: Electric fields sculpt neural activity and "tune" the brain's infrastructure. Prog Neurobiol 2023; 226:102465. [PMID: 37210066 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2023.102465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Revised: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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We propose and present converging evidence for the Cytoelectric Coupling Hypothesis: Electric fields generated by neurons are causal down to the level of the cytoskeleton. This could be achieved via electrodiffusion and mechanotransduction and exchanges between electrical, potential and chemical energy. Ephaptic coupling organizes neural activity, forming neural ensembles at the macroscale level. This information propagates to the neuron level, affecting spiking, and down to molecular level to stabilize the cytoskeleton, "tuning" it to process information more efficiently.
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- Dimitris A Pinotsis
- Centre for Mathematical Neuroscience and Psychology and Department of Psychology, City -University of London, London EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom; The Picower Institute for Learning & Memory and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Departments of Otolaryngology, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- The Picower Institute for Learning & Memory and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Shin D, Peelman K, Lien AD, Del Rosario J, Haider B. Narrowband gamma oscillations propagate and synchronize throughout the mouse thalamocortical visual system. Neuron 2023; 111:1076-1085.e8. [PMID: 37023711 PMCID: PMC10112544 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2022] [Revised: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/08/2023]
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Oscillations of neural activity permeate sensory systems. In the visual system, broadband gamma oscillations (30-80 Hz) are thought to act as a communication mechanism underlying perception. However, these oscillations show widely varying frequency and phase, providing constraints for coordinating spike timing across areas. Here, we examined Allen Brain Observatory data and performed causal experiments to show that narrowband gamma (NBG) oscillations (50-70 Hz) propagate and synchronize throughout the awake mouse visual system. Lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) neurons fired precisely relative to NBG phase in primary visual cortex (V1) and multiple higher visual areas (HVAs). NBG neurons across areas showed a higher likelihood of functional connectivity and stronger visual responses; remarkably, NBG neurons in LGN, preferring bright (ON) versus dark (OFF), fired at distinct NBG phases aligned across the cortical hierarchy. NBG oscillations may thus serve to coordinate spike timing across brain areas and facilitate communication of distinct visual features during perception.
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- Donghoon Shin
- Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Bioengineering, UCSF - UC Berkeley Joint PhD Program, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Guu SF, Chao YP, Huang FY, Cheng YT, Ng HYH, Hsu CF, Chuang CH, Huang CM, Wu CW. Interoceptive awareness: MBSR training alters information processing of salience network. Front Behav Neurosci 2023; 17:1008086. [PMID: 37025109 PMCID: PMC10070746 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1008086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2022] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/08/2023] Open
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Mindfulness refers to a mental state of awareness of internal experience without judgment. Studies have suggested that each mindfulness practice may involve a unique mental state, but the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms remain unknown. Here we examined how distinct mindfulness practices after mindfulness-based intervention alter brain functionality. Specifically, we investigated the functional alterations of the salience network (SN) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) among the two interoceptive mindfulness practices-breathing and body scan-associated with interoceptive awareness in fixed attention and shifted attention, respectively. Long-distance functional connectivity (FC) and regional homogeneity (ReHo) approaches were applied to measure distant and local neural information processing across various mental states. We hypothesized that mindful breathing and body scan would yield a unique information processing pattern in terms of long-range and local functional connectivity (FC). A total of 18 meditation-naïve participants were enrolled in an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program alongside a waitlist control group (n = 14), with both groups undergoing multiple fMRI sessions during breathing, body scan and resting state for comparison. We demonstrated that two mindfulness practices affect both the long-distance FC SN and the local ReHo, only apparent after the MBSR program. Three functional distinctions between the mindfulness practices and the resting state are noted: (1) distant SN connectivity to occipital regions increased during the breathing practice (fixed attention), whereas the SN increased connection with the frontal/central gyri during the body scan (shifting attention); (2) local ReHo increased only in the parietal lobe during the body scan (shifting attention); (3) distant and local connections turned into a positive correlation only during the mindfulness practices after the MBSR training, indicating a global enhancement of the SN information processing during mindfulness practices. Though with limited sample size, the functional specificity of mindfulness practices offers a potential research direction on neuroimaging of mindfulness, awaiting further studies for verification.
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- Shiao-Fei Guu
- Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Education, National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, College of Education, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Research Center for Education and Mind Sciences, College of Education, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Department of Child Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Research Center for Education and Mind Sciences, College of Education, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Center for Intelligent Drug Systems and Smart Bio-Devices (IDS2B), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- *Correspondence: Chih-Mao Huang,
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- Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Brain and Consciousness Research Center, Shuang Ho Hospital-Taipei Medical University, New Taipei, Taiwan
- Changwei W. Wu,
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Jun NY, Ruff DA, Kramer LE, Bowes B, Tokdar ST, Cohen MR, Groh JM. Coordinated multiplexing of information about separate objects in visual cortex. eLife 2022; 11:e76452. [PMID: 36444983 PMCID: PMC9708082 DOI: 10.7554/elife.76452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Sensory receptive fields are large enough that they can contain more than one perceptible stimulus. How, then, can the brain encode information about each of the stimuli that may be present at a given moment? We recently showed that when more than one stimulus is present, single neurons can fluctuate between coding one vs. the other(s) across some time period, suggesting a form of neural multiplexing of different stimuli (Caruso et al., 2018). Here, we investigate (a) whether such coding fluctuations occur in early visual cortical areas; (b) how coding fluctuations are coordinated across the neural population; and (c) how coordinated coding fluctuations depend on the parsing of stimuli into separate vs. fused objects. We found coding fluctuations do occur in macaque V1 but only when the two stimuli form separate objects. Such separate objects evoked a novel pattern of V1 spike count ('noise') correlations involving distinct distributions of positive and negative values. This bimodal correlation pattern was most pronounced among pairs of neurons showing the strongest evidence for coding fluctuations or multiplexing. Whether a given pair of neurons exhibited positive or negative correlations depended on whether the two neurons both responded better to the same object or had different object preferences. Distinct distributions of spike count correlations based on stimulus preferences were also seen in V4 for separate objects but not when two stimuli fused to form one object. These findings suggest multiple objects evoke different response dynamics than those evoked by single stimuli, lending support to the multiplexing hypothesis and suggesting a means by which information about multiple objects can be preserved despite the apparent coarseness of sensory coding.
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- Na Young Jun
- Department of Neurobiology, Duke UniversityDurhamUnited States
- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke UniversityDurhamUnited States
- Duke Institute for Brain SciencesDurhamUnited States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of PittsburghPittsburghUnited States
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of PittsburghPittsburghUnited States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of PittsburghPittsburghUnited States
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of PittsburghPittsburghUnited States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of PittsburghPittsburghUnited States
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of PittsburghPittsburghUnited States
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- Department of Statistical Science, Duke UniversityDurhamUnited States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of PittsburghPittsburghUnited States
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of PittsburghPittsburghUnited States
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke UniversityDurhamUnited States
- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke UniversityDurhamUnited States
- Duke Institute for Brain SciencesDurhamUnited States
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke UniversityDurhamUnited States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke UniversityDurhamUnited States
- Department of Computer Science, Duke UniversityDurhamUnited States
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Kung YC, Li CW, Hsiao FC, Tsai PJ, Chen S, Li MK, Lee HC, Chang CY, Wu CW, Lin CP. Cross-Scale Dynamicity of Entropy and Connectivity in the Sleeping Brain. Brain Connect 2022; 12:835-845. [PMID: 35343241 PMCID: PMC9839343 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2021.0174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Introduction: The concept of local sleep refers to the phenomenon of local brain activity that modifies neural networks during unresponsive global sleep. Such network rewiring may differ across spatial scales; however, the global and local alterations in brain systems remain elusive in human sleep. Materials and Methods: We examined cross-scale changes of brain networks in sleep. Functional magnetic resonance imaging data were acquired from 28 healthy participants during nocturnal sleep. We adopted both metrics of connectivity (functional connectivity [FC] and regional homogeneity [ReHo]) and complexity (multiscale entropy) to explore the global and local functionality of the neural assembly across nonrapid eye movement sleep stages. Results: Long-range FC decreased with sleep depth, whereas local ReHo peaked at the N2 stage and reached its lowest level at the N3 stage. Entropy exhibited a general decline at the local scale (Scale 1) as sleep deepened, whereas the coarse-scale entropy (Scale 3) was consistent across stages. Discussion: The negative correlation between Scale-1 entropy and ReHo reflects the enhanced signal regularity and synchronization in sleep, identifying the information exchange at the local scale. The N2 stage showed a distinctive pattern toward local information processing with scrambled long-distance information exchange, indicating a specific time window for network reorganization. Collectively, the multidimensional metrics indicated an imbalanced global-local relationship among brain functional networks across sleep-wake stages.
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- Yi-Chia Kung
- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Department of Radiology, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Counseling and Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Science Education Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Brain and Consciousness Research Center, Shuang-Ho Hospital,Taipei Medical University, New Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Brain Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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Gansel KS. Neural synchrony in cortical networks: mechanisms and implications for neural information processing and coding. Front Integr Neurosci 2022; 16:900715. [PMID: 36262373 PMCID: PMC9574343 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2022.900715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Synchronization of neuronal discharges on the millisecond scale has long been recognized as a prevalent and functionally important attribute of neural activity. In this article, I review classical concepts and corresponding evidence of the mechanisms that govern the synchronization of distributed discharges in cortical networks and relate those mechanisms to their possible roles in coding and cognitive functions. To accommodate the need for a selective, directed synchronization of cells, I propose that synchronous firing of distributed neurons is a natural consequence of spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) that associates cells repetitively receiving temporally coherent input: the “synchrony through synaptic plasticity” hypothesis. Neurons that are excited by a repeated sequence of synaptic inputs may learn to selectively respond to the onset of this sequence through synaptic plasticity. Multiple neurons receiving coherent input could thus actively synchronize their firing by learning to selectively respond at corresponding temporal positions. The hypothesis makes several predictions: first, the position of the cells in the network, as well as the source of their input signals, would be irrelevant as long as their input signals arrive simultaneously; second, repeating discharge patterns should get compressed until all or some part of the signals are synchronized; and third, this compression should be accompanied by a sparsening of signals. In this way, selective groups of cells could emerge that would respond to some recurring event with synchronous firing. Such a learned response pattern could further be modulated by synchronous network oscillations that provide a dynamic, flexible context for the synaptic integration of distributed signals. I conclude by suggesting experimental approaches to further test this new hypothesis.
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Comsa IM, Potempa K, Versari L, Fischbacher T, Gesmundo A, Alakuijala J. Temporal Coding in Spiking Neural Networks With Alpha Synaptic Function: Learning With Backpropagation. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS 2022; 33:5939-5952. [PMID: 33900924 DOI: 10.1109/tnnls.2021.3071976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The timing of individual neuronal spikes is essential for biological brains to make fast responses to sensory stimuli. However, conventional artificial neural networks lack the intrinsic temporal coding ability present in biological networks. We propose a spiking neural network model that encodes information in the relative timing of individual spikes. In classification tasks, the output of the network is indicated by the first neuron to spike in the output layer. This temporal coding scheme allows the supervised training of the network with backpropagation, using locally exact derivatives of the postsynaptic spike times with respect to presynaptic spike times. The network operates using a biologically plausible synaptic transfer function. In addition, we use trainable pulses that provide bias, add flexibility during training, and exploit the decayed part of the synaptic function. We show that such networks can be successfully trained on multiple data sets encoded in time, including MNIST. Our model outperforms comparable spiking models on MNIST and achieves similar quality to fully connected conventional networks with the same architecture. The spiking network spontaneously discovers two operating modes, mirroring the accuracy-speed tradeoff observed in human decision-making: a highly accurate but slow regime, and a fast but slightly lower accuracy regime. These results demonstrate the computational power of spiking networks with biological characteristics that encode information in the timing of individual neurons. By studying temporal coding in spiking networks, we aim to create building blocks toward energy-efficient, state-based biologically inspired neural architectures. We provide open-source code for the model.
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Das A, Mandel A, Shitara H, Popa T, Horovitz SG, Hallett M, Thirugnanasambandam N. Evaluating interhemispheric connectivity during midline object recognition using EEG. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0270949. [PMID: 36026515 PMCID: PMC9417031 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 06/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Functional integration between two hemispheres is crucial for perceptual binding to occur when visual stimuli are presented in the midline of the visual field. Mima and colleagues (2001) showed using EEG that midline object recognition was associated with task-related decrease in alpha band power (alpha desynchronisation) and a transient increase in interhemispheric coherence. Our objective in the current study was to replicate the results of Mima et al. and to further evaluate interhemispheric effective connectivity during midline object recognition in source space. We recruited 11 healthy adult volunteers and recorded EEG from 64 channels while they performed a midline object recognition task. Task-related power and coherence were estimated in sensor and source spaces. Further, effective connectivity was evaluated using Granger causality. While we were able to replicate the alpha desynchronisation associated with midline object recognition, we could not replicate the coherence results of Mima et al. The data-driven approach that we employed in our study localised the source of alpha desynchronisation over the left occipito-temporal region. In the alpha band, we further observed significant increase in imaginary part of coherency between bilateral occipito-temporal regions during object recognition. Finally, Granger causality analysis between the left and right occipito-temporal regions provided an insight that even though there is bidirectional interaction, the left occipito-temporal region may be crucial for integrating the information necessary for object recognition. The significance of the current study lies in using high-density EEG and applying more appropriate and robust measures of connectivity as well as statistical analysis to validate and enhance our current knowledge on the neural basis of midline object recognition.
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- Anwesha Das
- Human Motor Neurophysiology and Neuromodulation Lab, National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar, Haryana, India
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- Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Human Motor Neurophysiology and Neuromodulation Lab, National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar, Haryana, India
- Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Leadholm N, Stringer S. Hierarchical binding in convolutional neural networks: Making adversarial attacks geometrically challenging. Neural Netw 2022; 155:258-286. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2022.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 07/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Ray S. Spike-Gamma Phase Relationship in the Visual Cortex. Annu Rev Vis Sci 2022; 8:361-381. [PMID: 35667158 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-vision-100419-104530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Gamma oscillations (30-70 Hz) have been hypothesized to play a role in cortical function. Most of the proposed mechanisms involve rhythmic modulation of neuronal excitability at gamma frequencies, leading to modulation of spike timing relative to the rhythm. I first show that the gamma band could be more privileged than other frequencies in observing spike-field interactions even in the absence of genuine gamma rhythmicity and discuss several biases in spike-gamma phase estimation. I then discuss the expected spike-gamma phase according to several hypotheses. Inconsistent with the phase-coding hypothesis (but not with others), the spike-gamma phase does not change with changes in stimulus intensity or attentional state, with spikes preferentially occurring 2-4 ms before the trough, but with substantial variability. However, this phase relationship is expected even when gamma is a byproduct of excitatory-inhibitory interactions. Given that gamma occurs in short bursts, I argue that the debate over the role of gamma is a matter of semantics. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Vision Science, Volume 8 is September 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Supratim Ray
- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 560012;
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Vlcek P, Bob P. Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Pre-Attentional Inhibitory Deficits. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 2022; 18:821-827. [PMID: 35422621 PMCID: PMC9005071 DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s352157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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According to recent findings schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as separate disease entities manifest similarities in neuropsychological functioning. Typical disturbances in both disorders are related to sensory gating deficits characterized by decreased inhibitory functions in responses to various insignificant perceptual signals which are experimentally tested by event related potentials (ERP) and measured P50 wave. In this context, recent findings implicate that disrupted binding and disintegration of consciousness in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder that are related to inhibitory deficits reflected in P50 response may explain similarities in psychotic disturbances in both disorders. With this aim, this review summarizes literature about P50 in both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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- Premysl Vlcek
- National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic
- Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Research of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry and UHSL, First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, & Faculty of Medicine Pilsen, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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The brain’s ability to create a unified conscious representation of an object by integrating information from multiple perception pathways is called perceptual binding. Binding is crucial for normal cognitive function. Some perceptual binding errors and disorders have been linked to certain neurological conditions, brain lesions, and conditions that give rise to illusory conjunctions. However, the mechanism of perceptual binding remains elusive. Here, I present a computational model of binding using two sets of coupled oscillatory processes that are assumed to occur in response to two different percepts. I use the model to study the dynamic behavior of coupled processes to characterize how these processes can modulate each other and reach a temporal synchrony. I identify different oscillatory dynamic regimes that depend on coupling mechanisms and parameter values. The model can also discriminate different combinations of initial inputs that are set by initial states of coupled processes. Decoding brain signals that are formed through perceptual binding is a challenging task, but my modeling results demonstrate how crosstalk between two systems of processes can possibly modulate their outputs. Therefore, my mechanistic model can help one gain a better understanding of how crosstalk between perception pathways can affect the dynamic behavior of the systems that involve perceptual binding.
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Ibarra-Lecue I, Haegens S, Harris AZ. Breaking Down a Rhythm: Dissecting the Mechanisms Underlying Task-Related Neural Oscillations. Front Neural Circuits 2022; 16:846905. [PMID: 35310550 PMCID: PMC8931663 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2022.846905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A century worth of research has linked multiple cognitive, perceptual and behavioral states to various brain oscillations. However, the mechanistic roles and circuit underpinnings of these oscillations remain an area of active study. In this review, we argue that the advent of optogenetic and related systems neuroscience techniques has shifted the field from correlational to causal observations regarding the role of oscillations in brain function. As a result, studying brain rhythms associated with behavior can provide insight at different levels, such as decoding task-relevant information, mapping relevant circuits or determining key proteins involved in rhythmicity. We summarize recent advances in this field, highlighting the methods that are being used for this purpose, and discussing their relative strengths and limitations. We conclude with promising future approaches that will help unravel the functional role of brain rhythms in orchestrating the repertoire of complex behavior.
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- Inés Ibarra-Lecue
- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States
- Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States
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Joshi S, Gold JI. Context-dependent relationships between locus coeruleus firing patterns and coordinated neural activity in the anterior cingulate cortex. eLife 2022; 11:63490. [PMID: 34994344 PMCID: PMC8765756 DOI: 10.7554/elife.63490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Ascending neuromodulatory projections from the locus coeruleus (LC) affect cortical neural networks via the release of norepinephrine (NE). However, the exact nature of these neuromodulatory effects on neural activity patterns in vivo is not well understood. Here, we show that in awake monkeys, LC activation is associated with changes in coordinated activity patterns in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). These relationships, which are largely independent of changes in firing rates of individual ACC neurons, depend on the type of LC activation: ACC pairwise correlations tend to be reduced when ongoing (baseline) LC activity increases but enhanced when external events evoke transient LC responses. Both relationships covary with pupil changes that reflect LC activation and arousal. These results suggest that modulations of information processing that reflect changes in coordinated activity patterns in cortical networks can result partly from ongoing, context-dependent, arousal-related changes in activation of the LC-NE system.
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- Siddhartha Joshi
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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Kreis SL, Luhmann HJ, Ciolac D, Groppa S, Muthuraman M. Translational Model of Cortical Premotor-Motor Networks. Cereb Cortex 2021; 32:2621-2634. [PMID: 34689188 PMCID: PMC9201593 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Revised: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Deciphering the physiological patterns of motor network connectivity is a prerequisite to elucidate aberrant oscillatory transformations and elaborate robust translational models of movement disorders. In the proposed translational approach, we studied the connectivity between premotor (PMC) and primary motor cortex (M1) by recording high-density electroencephalography in humans and between caudal (CFA) and rostral forelimb (RFA) areas by recording multi-site extracellular activity in mice to obtain spectral power, functional and effective connectivity. We identified a significantly higher spectral power in β- and γ-bands in M1compared to PMC and similarly in mice CFA layers (L) 2/3 and 5 compared to RFA. We found a strong functional β-band connectivity between PMC and M1 in humans and between CFA L6 and RFA L5 in mice. We observed that in both humans and mice the direction of information flow mediated by β- and γ-band oscillations was predominantly from PMC toward M1 and from RFA to CFA, respectively. Combining spectral power, functional and effective connectivity, we revealed clear similarities between human PMC-M1 connections and mice RFA-CFA network. We propose that reciprocal connectivity of mice RFA-CFA circuitry presents a suitable model for analysis of motor control and physiological PMC-M1 functioning or pathological transformations within this network.
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- Svenja L Kreis
- Institute of Physiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz D-55128, Germany
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- Institute of Physiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz D-55128, Germany
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- Section of Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation, Biomedical Statistics and Multimodal Signal Processing Unit, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz D-55131, Germany.,Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau MD-2001, Republic of Moldova
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- Section of Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation, Biomedical Statistics and Multimodal Signal Processing Unit, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz D-55131, Germany
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- Section of Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation, Biomedical Statistics and Multimodal Signal Processing Unit, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz D-55131, Germany
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Viswanathan V, Bharadwaj HM, Shinn-Cunningham BG, Heinz MG. Modulation masking and fine structure shape neural envelope coding to predict speech intelligibility across diverse listening conditions. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2021; 150:2230. [PMID: 34598642 PMCID: PMC8483789 DOI: 10.1121/10.0006385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Revised: 07/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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A fundamental question in the neuroscience of everyday communication is how scene acoustics shape the neural processing of attended speech sounds and in turn impact speech intelligibility. While it is well known that the temporal envelopes in target speech are important for intelligibility, how the neural encoding of target-speech envelopes is influenced by background sounds or other acoustic features of the scene is unknown. Here, we combine human electroencephalography with simultaneous intelligibility measurements to address this key gap. We find that the neural envelope-domain signal-to-noise ratio in target-speech encoding, which is shaped by masker modulations, predicts intelligibility over a range of strategically chosen realistic listening conditions unseen by the predictive model. This provides neurophysiological evidence for modulation masking. Moreover, using high-resolution vocoding to carefully control peripheral envelopes, we show that target-envelope coding fidelity in the brain depends not only on envelopes conveyed by the cochlea, but also on the temporal fine structure (TFS), which supports scene segregation. Our results are consistent with the notion that temporal coherence of sound elements across envelopes and/or TFS influences scene analysis and attentive selection of a target sound. Our findings also inform speech-intelligibility models and technologies attempting to improve real-world speech communication.
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- Vibha Viswanathan
- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Tani R, Kashimori Y. Coordination of top-down influence on V1 responses by interneurons and brain rhythms. Biosystems 2021; 207:104452. [PMID: 34139291 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Revised: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 06/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Top-down processing in neocortex underlies functions such as prediction, expectation, and attention. Visual systems have much feedback connection that carries information of behavioral context. Top-down signals along feedback pathways modulate the representation of visual information in early visual areas such as primary visual cortex (V1). Recent studies have shown further that beta rhythms are responsible for the transmission of behavioral-context information to lower visual areas. However, the mechanism underlying top-down influence and the role of brain rhythms in top-down processing are poorly understood. To address these issues, we focus on experimental studies on top-down influence in visual perceptual tasks. We develop a model of visual system, in which early visual areas are subjected to top-down influence from a recognition area. We show that task-relevant information in early visual areas is regulated by a push-pull effect, produced by somatostatin-expressing interneurons and top-down signal. We also show that task-context information is coordinated by the phase-phase coupling of beta rhythms, while the local, task-relevant stimulus features are enhanced by the phase-amplitude coupling of beta and gamma rhythms. Furthermore, the feedback from a higher visual area such as secondary visual area facilitates the gating of task-relevant information in V1. The results provide insights to understanding the roles of inhibitory interneurons and brain rhythms in top-down influence on information processing in early visual areas.
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- Ryo Tani
- Department of Engineering Science, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan.
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan
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Garrido Wainer JM, Fardella C, Espinosa Cristia JF. Arche-writing and data-production in theory-oriented scientific practice: the case of free-viewing as experimental system to test the temporal correlation hypothesis. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES 2021; 43:70. [PMID: 34013408 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-021-00418-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 04/18/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Data production in experimental sciences depends on localised experimental systems, but the epistemic properties of data transcend the contingencies of the processes that produce them. Philosophers often believe that experimental systems instantiate but do not produce the epistemic properties of data. In this paper, we argue that experimental systems' local functioning entails intrinsic capacities to produce the epistemic properties of data. We develop this idea by applying Derrida's model of arche-writing to study a case of theory-oriented experimental practice. Derrida's model relativises or dissolves the conceptual distinction between the moment of data production and a subsequent moment of data dissemination. It thus has consequences for understanding both data production (despite being intrinsically local, data production a priori generates transferrable and modellable information) and data dissemination (when modelling information, researchers needs to refer this information to the context of its production). We study a case of data production in a non-exploratory experimental system designed to test a pre-existing hypothesis in visual neuroscience. A case of theory-oriented experimental practice should allow us to identify the autonomous functioning of experimental systems in data production more clearly, insofar as it allows us to study the limits of pre-existing theory in the activities of these systems. We suggest that pre-existing concepts, hypotheses and theories condition the relevance but not the production of experimental data.
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- Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer
- Centro de Estudios en Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad (CECTS), Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Alameda 1869, office 302, 8340576, Santiago, Chile.
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- Facultad de Educación y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Andrés Bello, Quillota 980, 2540040, Viña del Mar, Chile
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Wason TD. A model integrating multiple processes of synchronization and coherence for information instantiation within a cortical area. Biosystems 2021; 205:104403. [PMID: 33746019 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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What is the form of dynamic, e.g., sensory, information in the mammalian cortex? Information in the cortex is modeled as a coherence map of a mixed chimera state of synchronous, phasic, and disordered minicolumns. The theoretical model is built on neurophysiological evidence. Complex spatiotemporal information is instantiated through a system of interacting biological processes that generate a synchronized cortical area, a coherent aperture. Minicolumn elements are grouped in macrocolumns in an array analogous to a phased-array radar, modeled as an aperture, a "hole through which radiant energy flows." Coherence maps in a cortical area transform inputs from multiple sources into outputs to multiple targets, while reducing complexity and entropy. Coherent apertures can assume extremely large numbers of different information states as coherence maps, which can be communicated among apertures with corresponding very large bandwidths. The coherent aperture model incorporates considerable reported research, integrating five conceptually and mathematically independent processes: 1) a damped Kuramoto network model, 2) a pumped area field potential, 3) the gating of nearly coincident spikes, 4) the coherence of activity across cortical lamina, and 5) complex information formed through functions in macrocolumns. Biological processes and their interactions are described in equations and a functional circuit such that the mathematical pieces can be assembled the same way the neurophysiological ones are. The model can be conceptually convolved over the specifics of local cortical areas within and across species. A coherent aperture becomes a node in a graph of cortical areas with a corresponding distribution of information.
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- Thomas D Wason
- North Carolina State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Meitzen Laboratory, Campus Box 7617, 128 David Clark Labs, Raleigh, NC 27695-7617, USA.
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Wang B, Han C, Wang T, Dai W, Li Y, Yang Y, Yang G, Zhong L, Zhang Y, Wu Y, Wang G, Yu H, Xing D. Superimposed gratings induce diverse response patterns of gamma oscillations in primary visual cortex. Sci Rep 2021; 11:4941. [PMID: 33654121 PMCID: PMC7925546 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83923-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Stimulus-dependence of gamma oscillations (GAMMA, 30-90 Hz) has not been fully understood, but it is important for revealing neural mechanisms and functions of GAMMA. Here, we recorded spiking activity (MUA) and the local field potential (LFP), driven by a variety of plaids (generated by two superimposed gratings orthogonal to each other and with different contrast combinations), in the primary visual cortex of anesthetized cats. We found two distinct narrow-band GAMMAs in the LFPs and a variety of response patterns to plaids. Similar to MUA, most response patterns showed that the second grating suppressed GAMMAs driven by the first one. However, there is only a weak site-by-site correlation between cross-orientation interactions in GAMMAs and those in MUAs. We developed a normalization model that could unify the response patterns of both GAMMAs and MUAs. Interestingly, compared with MUAs, the GAMMAs demonstrated a wider range of model parameters and more diverse response patterns to plaids. Further analysis revealed that normalization parameters for high GAMMA, but not those for low GAMMA, were significantly correlated with the discrepancy of spatial frequency between stimulus and sites' preferences. Consistent with these findings, normalization parameters and diversity of high GAMMA exhibited a clear transition trend and region difference between area 17 to 18. Our results show that GAMMAs are also regulated in the form of normalization, but that the neural mechanisms for these normalizations might differ from those of spiking activity. Normalizations in different brain signals could be due to interactions of excitation and inhibitions at multiple stages in the visual system.
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- Bin Wang
- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.410318.f0000 0004 0632 3409Center of Brain Sciences, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100085 China
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- grid.8547.e0000 0001 0125 2443Vision Research Laboratory, Center for Brain Science Research and School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, 2005 Songhu Road, Shanghai, 200433 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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Garrido Wainer JM, Espinosa JF, Hirmas N, Trujillo N. Free-viewing as experimental system to test the Temporal Correlation Hypothesis: A case of theory-generative experimental practice. STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES 2020; 83:101307. [PMID: 32467019 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Revised: 05/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Theory-free characterizations of experimental systems miss normative and conceptual components that sometimes are crucial to understanding their historical development. In the following paper, we show that these components may be part of the intrinsic capacities of experimental systems themselves. We study a case of non-exploratory and theory-oriented research in experimental neuroscience that concerns the construction of free-viewing as an experimental system to test one particular pre-existing hypothesis, the Temporal Correlation Hypothesis (TCH), at a laboratory in Santiago de Chile, during 2002-2008. We show that the system does not take well-formulated pre-existing predictions or hypotheses to test them directly, but re-creates them and re-signifies them in terms that are not implied by the theoretical background from which they originally derived. Therefore, we conclude that there is a sui generis way in which experimental systems produce proper theoretical knowledge.
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- Universidad Andres Bello, Escuela de Ingeniería Comercial, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Quillota #980, Viña del Mar, Chile
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- Faculty of Education, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Vicuña Mackenna 4860, 7810000, Macul, Santiago, Chile
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- Philosophy Institute, Universidad Diego Portales / Leiden University, Ejército Libertador 260, 8370056, Santiago, Chile
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Rossi KL, Boaretto BRR, Budzinski RC. The role of synchronization in neural systems and their consequence to the neural behavior: Comment on "The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation". Phys Life Rev 2020; 36:68-70. [PMID: 32883603 DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2020.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- K L Rossi
- Department of Physics, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 81531-980 Curitiba, Brazil
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- Department of Physics, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 81531-980 Curitiba, Brazil
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- Department of Physics, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 81531-980 Curitiba, Brazil.
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A small fraction of mammalian retinal ganglion cells are directly photoreceptive thanks to their expression of the photopigment melanopsin. These intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) have well-established roles in a variety of reflex responses to changes in ambient light intensity, including circadian photoentrainment. In this article, we review the growing evidence, obtained primarily from laboratory mice and humans, that the ability to sense light via melanopsin is also an important component of perceptual and form vision. Melanopsin photoreception has low temporal resolution, making it fundamentally biased toward detecting changes in ambient light and coarse patterns rather than fine details. Nevertheless, melanopsin can indirectly impact high-acuity vision by driving aspects of light adaptation ranging from pupil constriction to changes in visual circuit performance. Melanopsin also contributes directly to perceptions of brightness, and recent data suggest that this influences the appearance not only of overall scene brightness, but also of low-frequency patterns.
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- Robert J Lucas
- Centre for Biological Timing and Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom;
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- Centre for Biological Timing and Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom;
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- Centre for Biological Timing and Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom;
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- Centre for Biological Timing and Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom;
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- Centre for Biological Timing and Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom;
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Calmus R, Wilson B, Kikuchi Y, Petkov CI. Structured sequence processing and combinatorial binding: neurobiologically and computationally informed hypotheses. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2020; 375:20190304. [PMID: 31840585 PMCID: PMC6939361 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Understanding how the brain forms representations of structured information distributed in time is a challenging endeavour for the neuroscientific community, requiring computationally and neurobiologically informed approaches. The neural mechanisms for segmenting continuous streams of sensory input and establishing representations of dependencies remain largely unknown, as do the transformations and computations occurring between the brain regions involved in these aspects of sequence processing. We propose a blueprint for a neurobiologically informed and informing computational model of sequence processing (entitled: Vector-symbolic Sequencing of Binding INstantiating Dependencies, or VS-BIND). This model is designed to support the transformation of serially ordered elements in sensory sequences into structured representations of bound dependencies, readily operates on multiple timescales, and encodes or decodes sequences with respect to chunked items wherever dependencies occur in time. The model integrates established vector symbolic additive and conjunctive binding operators with neurobiologically plausible oscillatory dynamics, and is compatible with modern spiking neural network simulation methods. We show that the model is capable of simulating previous findings from structured sequence processing tasks that engage fronto-temporal regions, specifying mechanistic roles for regions such as prefrontal areas 44/45 and the frontal operculum during interactions with sensory representations in temporal cortex. Finally, we are able to make predictions based on the configuration of the model alone that underscore the importance of serial position information, which requires input from time-sensitive cells, known to reside in the hippocampus and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. This article is part of the theme issue 'Towards mechanistic models of meaning composition'.
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- Ryan Calmus
- Newcastle University Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Bartoli E, Bosking W, Chen Y, Li Y, Sheth SA, Beauchamp MS, Yoshor D, Foster BL. Functionally Distinct Gamma Range Activity Revealed by Stimulus Tuning in Human Visual Cortex. Curr Biol 2019; 29:3345-3358.e7. [PMID: 31588003 PMCID: PMC6810857 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2019] [Revised: 07/01/2019] [Accepted: 08/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Neocortical gamma activity has long been hypothesized as a mechanism for synchronizing brain regions to support visual perception and cognition more broadly. Although early studies focused on narrowband gamma oscillations (∼20-60 Hz), recent work has emphasized a more broadband "high-gamma" response (∼70-150+ Hz). These responses are often conceptually or analytically treated as synonymous markers of gamma activity. Using high-density intracranial recordings from the human visual cortex, we challenge this view by showing distinct spectral, temporal, and functional properties of narrow and broadband gamma. Across four experiments, narrowband gamma was strongly selective for gratings and long-wavelength colors, displaying a delayed response onset, sustained temporal profile, and contrast-dependent peak frequency. In addition, induced narrowband gamma oscillations lacked phase consistency across stimulus repetitions and displayed highly focal inter-site synchronization. In contrast, broadband gamma was consistently observed for all presented stimuli, displaying a rapid response onset, transient temporal profile, and invariant spectral properties. We exploited stimulus tuning to highlight the functional dissociation of these distinct signals, reconciling prior inconsistencies across species and stimuli regarding the ubiquity of visual gamma oscillations during natural vision. The occurrence of visual narrowband gamma oscillations, unlike broadband high gamma, appears contingent on specific structural and chromatic stimulus attributes intersecting with the receptive field. Together, these findings have important implications for the study, analysis, and functional interpretation of neocortical gamma-range activity.
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- Eleonora Bartoli
- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Posada-Quintero HF, Reljin N, Bolkhovsky JB, Orjuela-Cañón AD, Chon KH. Brain Activity Correlates With Cognitive Performance Deterioration During Sleep Deprivation. Front Neurosci 2019; 13:1001. [PMID: 31607847 PMCID: PMC6761229 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.01001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We studied the correlation between oscillatory brain activity and performance in healthy subjects performing the error awareness task (EAT) every 2 h, for 24 h. In the EAT, subjects were shown on a screen the names of colors and were asked to press a key if the name of the color and the color it was shown in matched, and the screen was not a duplicate of the one before (“Go” trials). In the event of a duplicate screen (“Repeat No-Go” trial) or a color mismatch (“Stroop No-Go” trial), the subjects were asked to withhold from pressing the key. We assessed subjects’ (N = 10) response inhibition by measuring accuracy of the “Stroop No-Go” (SNGacc) and “Repeat No-Go” trials (RNGacc). We assessed their reactivity by measuring reaction time in the “Go” trials (GRT). Simultaneously, nine electroencephalographic (EEG) channels were recorded (Fp2, F7, F8, O1, Oz, Pz, O2, T7, and T8). The correlation between reactivity and response inhibition measures to brain activity was tested using quantitative measures of brain activity based on the relative power of gamma, beta, alpha, theta, and delta waves. In general, response inhibition and reactivity reached a steady level between 6 and 16 h of sleep deprivation, which was followed by sustained impairment after 18 h. Channels F7 and Fp2 had the highest correlation to the indices of performance. Measures of response inhibition (RNGacc and SNGacc) were correlated to the alpha and theta waves’ power for most of the channels, especially in the F7 channel (r = 0.82 and 0.84, respectively). The reactivity (GRT) exhibited the highest correlation to the power of gamma waves in channel Fp2 (0.76). We conclude that quantitative measures of EEG provide information that can help us to better understand changes in subjects’ performance and could be used as an indicator to prevent the adverse consequences of sleep deprivation.
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- Hugo F Posada-Quintero
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States
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- Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica, Electrónica y Biomédica, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogota, Colombia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States
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Multisensory feature integration in (and out) of the focus of spatial attention. Atten Percept Psychophys 2019; 82:363-376. [DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01813-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Dynamic Protention: The Architecture of Real-Time Cognition for Future Events. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 2019. [PMID: 31041690 DOI: 10.1007/7854_2019_94] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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For over 30 years now, a body of physiological evidence has been acquired which indicates that cognitive operations coordinate via the phase synchronization of neuronal firing. While usually ascribed to "binding," i.e., the putting together of basic perceptual features to form more complex perceptual units, this ascription is not without critics, who identify phase synchronization as a function of sensorimotor coordination. From the perspective of an experimental paradigm used to measure the effects of stimulus synchronization, we discuss what is "bound" and attempt a reconciliation between perceptual and sensorimotor accounts of oscillatory synchronization. Our evidence identifies a role for synchronization in protentive coding, this is to say, coding in anticipation of a future event, and hence describes the architecture of real-time cognition for future events.
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Perrier SP, Gleizes M, Fonta C, Nowak LG. Effect of adenosine on short-term synaptic plasticity in mouse piriform cortex in vitro: adenosine acts as a high-pass filter. Physiol Rep 2019; 7:e13992. [PMID: 30740934 PMCID: PMC6369103 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.13992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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We examined the effect of adenosine and of adenosine A1 receptor blockage on short-term synaptic plasticity in slices of adult mouse anterior piriform cortex maintained in vitro in an in vivo-like ACSF. Extracellular recording of postsynaptic responses was performed in layer 1a while repeated electrical stimulation (5-pulse-trains, frequency between 3.125 and 100 Hz) was applied to the lateral olfactory tract. Our stimulation protocol was aimed at covering the frequency range of oscillatory activities observed in the olfactory bulb in vivo. In control condition, postsynaptic response amplitude showed a large enhancement for stimulation frequencies in the beta and gamma frequency range. A phenomenological model of short-term synaptic plasticity fitted to the data suggests that this frequency-dependent enhancement can be explained by the interplay between a short-term facilitation mechanism and two short-term depression mechanisms, with fast and slow recovery time constants. In the presence of adenosine, response amplitude evoked by low-frequency stimulation decreased in a dose-dependent manner (IC50 = 70 μmol/L). Yet short-term plasticity became more dominated by facilitation and less influenced by depression. Both changes compensated for the initial decrease in response amplitude in a way that depended on stimulation frequency: compensation was strongest at high frequency, up to restoring response amplitudes to values similar to those measured in control condition. The model suggested that the main effects of adenosine were to decrease neurotransmitter release probability and to attenuate short-term depression mechanisms. Overall, these results suggest that adenosine does not merely inhibit neuronal activity but acts in a more subtle, frequency-dependent manner.
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Jirakittayakorn N, Wongsawat Y. A Novel Insight of Effects of a 3-Hz Binaural Beat on Sleep Stages During Sleep. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:387. [PMID: 30319382 PMCID: PMC6165862 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2018] [Accepted: 09/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The dichotic presentation of two almost equivalent pure tones with slightly different frequencies leads to virtual beat perception by the brain. In this phenomenon, the so-called binaural beat has a frequency equaling the difference of the frequencies of the two pure tones. The binaural beat can entrain neural activities to synchronize with the beat frequency and induce behavioral states related to the neural activities. This study aimed to investigate the effect of a 3-Hz binaural beat on sleep stages, which is considered a behavioral state. Twenty-four participants were allocated to experimental and control groups. The experimental period was three consecutive nights consisting of an adaptation night, a baseline night, and an experimental night. Participants in both groups underwent the same procedures, but only the experimental group was exposed to the 3-Hz binaural beat on the experimental night. The stimulus was initiated when the first epoch of the N2 sleep stage was detected and stopped when the first epoch of the N3 sleep stage detected. For the control group, a silent sham stimulus was used. However, the participants were blinded to their stimulus group. The results showed that the N3 duration of the experimental group was longer than that of the control group, and the N2 duration of the experimental group was shorter than that of the control group. Moreover, the N3 latency of the experimental group was shorter.
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- Nantawachara Jirakittayakorn
- Brain Computer Interface Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand
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- Brain Computer Interface Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand
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Tamás G, Chirumamilla VC, Anwar AR, Raethjen J, Deuschl G, Groppa S, Muthuraman M. Primary Sensorimotor Cortex Drives the Common Cortical Network for Gamma Synchronization in Voluntary Hand Movements. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:130. [PMID: 29681807 PMCID: PMC5897748 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background: Gamma synchronization (GS) may promote the processing between functionally related cortico-subcortical neural populations. Our aim was to identify the sources of GS and to analyze the direction of information flow in cerebral networks at the beginning of phasic movements, and during medium-strength isometric contraction of the hand. Methods: We measured 64-channel electroencephalography in 11 healthy volunteers (age: 25 ± 8 years; four females); surface electromyography detected the movements of the dominant hand. In Task 1, subjects kept a constant medium-strength contraction of the first dorsal interosseus muscle, and performed a superimposed repetitive voluntary self-paced brisk squeeze of an object. In Task 2, brisk, and in Task 3, constant contractions were performed. Time-frequency analysis of the EEG signal was performed with the multitaper method. GS sources were identified in five frequency bands (30–49, 51–75, 76–99, 101–125, and 126–149 Hz) with beamformer inverse solution dynamic imaging of coherent sources. The direction of information flow was estimated by renormalized partial directed coherence for each frequency band. The data-driven surrogate test, and the time reversal technique were performed to identify significant connections. Results: In all tasks, we depicted the first three common sources for the studied frequency bands that were as follows: contralateral primary sensorimotor cortex (S1M1), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dPFC) and supplementary motor cortex (SMA). GS was detected in narrower low- (∼30–60 Hz) and high-frequency bands (>51–60 Hz) in the contralateral thalamus and ipsilateral cerebellum in all three tasks. The contralateral posterior parietal cortex was activated only in Task 1. In every task, S1M1 had efferent information flow to the SMA and the dPFC while dPFC had no detected afferent connections to the network in the gamma range. Cortical-subcortical information flow captured by the GS was dynamically variable in the narrower frequency bands for the studied movements. Conclusion: A distinct cortical network was identified for GS in voluntary hand movement tasks. Our study revealed that S1M1 modulated the activity of interconnected cortical areas through GS, while subcortical structures modulated the motor network dynamically, and specifically for the studied movement program.
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- Gertrúd Tamás
- Department of Neurology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Section of Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation, Biomedical Statistics and Multimodal Signal Processing Unit, Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany.,Biomedical Engineering Centre, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Neurology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
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- Section of Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation, Biomedical Statistics and Multimodal Signal Processing Unit, Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Section of Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation, Biomedical Statistics and Multimodal Signal Processing Unit, Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Bland NS, Mattingley JB, Sale MV. No Evidence for Phase-Specific Effects of 40 Hz HD-tACS on Multiple Object Tracking. Front Psychol 2018; 9:304. [PMID: 29593608 PMCID: PMC5854687 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2017] [Accepted: 02/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Phase synchronization drives connectivity between neural oscillators, providing a flexible mechanism through which information can be effectively and selectively routed between task-relevant cortical areas. The ability to keep track of objects moving between the left and right visual hemifields, for example, requires the integration of information between the two cerebral hemispheres. Both animal and human studies have suggested that coherent (or phase-locked) gamma oscillations (30–80 Hz) might underlie this ability. While most human evidence has been strictly correlational, high-density transcranial alternating current stimulation (HD-tACS) has been used to manipulate ongoing interhemispheric gamma phase relationships. Previous research showed that 40 Hz tACS delivered bilaterally over human motion complex could bias the perception of a bistable ambiguous motion stimulus (Helfrich et al., 2014). Specifically, this work showed that in-phase (0° offset) stimulation boosted endogenous interhemispheric gamma coherence and biased perception toward the horizontal (whereby visual tokens moved between visual hemifields—requiring interhemispheric integration). By contrast, anti-phase (180° offset) stimulation decreased interhemispheric gamma coherence and biased perception toward the vertical (whereby tokens moved within separate visual hemifields). Here we devised a multiple object tracking arena comprised of four quadrants whereby discrete objects moved either entirely within the left and right visual hemifields, or could cross freely between visual hemifields, thus requiring interhemispheric integration. Using the same HD-tACS montages as Helfrich et al. (2014), we found no phase-specific effect of 40 Hz stimulation on overall tracking performance. While tracking performance was generally lower during between-hemifield trials (presumably reflecting a cost of integration), this difference was unchanged by in- vs. anti-phase stimulation. Our null results could be due to a failure to reliably modulate coherence in our study, or that our task does not rely as heavily on this network of coherent gamma oscillations as other visual integration paradigms.
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- Nicholas S Bland
- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia.,School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia.,School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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Roy K, Kumar S, Bloomfield SA. Gap junctional coupling between retinal amacrine and ganglion cells underlies coherent activity integral to global object perception. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:E10484-E10493. [PMID: 29133423 PMCID: PMC5715748 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708261114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Coherent spike activity occurs between widely separated retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in response to a large, contiguous object, but not to disjointed objects. Since the large spatial separation between the RGCs precludes common excitatory inputs from bipolar cells, the mechanism underlying this long-range coherence remains unclear. Here, we show that electrical coupling between RGCs and polyaxonal amacrine cells in mouse retina forms the synaptic mechanism responsible for long-range coherent activity in the retina. Pharmacological blockade of gap junctions or genetic ablation of connexin 36 (Cx36) subunits eliminates the long-range correlated spiking between RGCs. Moreover, we find that blockade of gap junctions or ablation of Cx36 significantly reduces the ability of mice to discriminate large, global objects from small, disjointed stimuli. Our results indicate that synchronous activity of RGCs, derived from electrical coupling with amacrine cells, encodes information critical to global object perception.
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- Kaushambi Roy
- Department of Biological and Vision Sciences, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, NY 10036
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- Department of Biological and Vision Sciences, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, NY 10036
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- Department of Biological and Vision Sciences, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, NY 10036
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Basha D, Dostrovsky JO, Kalia SK, Hodaie M, Lozano AM, Hutchison WD. Gamma oscillations in the somatosensory thalamus of a patient with a phantom limb: case report. J Neurosurg 2017; 129:1048-1055. [PMID: 29125416 DOI: 10.3171/2017.5.jns17170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The amputation of an extremity is commonly followed by phantom sensations that are perceived to originate from the missing limb. The mechanism underlying the generation of these sensations is still not clear although the development of abnormal oscillatory bursting in thalamic neurons may be involved. The theory of thalamocortical dysrhythmia implicates gamma oscillations in phantom pathophysiology although this rhythm has not been previously observed in the phantom limb thalamus. In this study, the authors report the novel observation of widespread 38-Hz gamma oscillatory activity in spike and local field potential recordings obtained from the ventral caudal somatosensory nucleus of the thalamus (Vc) of a phantom limb patient undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery. Interestingly, microstimulation near tonically firing cells in the Vc resulted in high-frequency, gamma oscillatory discharges coincident with phantom sensations reported by the patient. Recordings from the somatosensory thalamus of comparator groups (essential tremor and pain) did not reveal the presence of gamma oscillatory activity.
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- Diellor Basha
- Departments of1Physiology and.,4Krembil Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Departments of1Physiology and.,3Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital; and.,4Krembil Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 2Surgery, University of Toronto.,4Krembil Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 2Surgery, University of Toronto.,4Krembil Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 2Surgery, University of Toronto.,4Krembil Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Departments of1Physiology and.,3Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital; and.,4Krembil Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Rostami V, Porta Mana P, Grün S, Helias M. Bistability, non-ergodicity, and inhibition in pairwise maximum-entropy models. PLoS Comput Biol 2017; 13:e1005762. [PMID: 28968396 PMCID: PMC5645158 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2016] [Revised: 10/17/2017] [Accepted: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Pairwise maximum-entropy models have been used in neuroscience to predict the activity of neuronal populations, given only the time-averaged correlations of the neuron activities. This paper provides evidence that the pairwise model, applied to experimental recordings, would produce a bimodal distribution for the population-averaged activity, and for some population sizes the second mode would peak at high activities, that experimentally would be equivalent to 90% of the neuron population active within time-windows of few milliseconds. Several problems are connected with this bimodality: 1. The presence of the high-activity mode is unrealistic in view of observed neuronal activity and on neurobiological grounds. 2. Boltzmann learning becomes non-ergodic, hence the pairwise maximum-entropy distribution cannot be found: in fact, Boltzmann learning would produce an incorrect distribution; similarly, common variants of mean-field approximations also produce an incorrect distribution. 3. The Glauber dynamics associated with the model is unrealistically bistable and cannot be used to generate realistic surrogate data. This bimodality problem is first demonstrated for an experimental dataset from 159 neurons in the motor cortex of macaque monkey. Evidence is then provided that this problem affects typical neural recordings of population sizes of a couple of hundreds or more neurons. The cause of the bimodality problem is identified as the inability of standard maximum-entropy distributions with a uniform reference measure to model neuronal inhibition. To eliminate this problem a modified maximum-entropy model is presented, which reflects a basic effect of inhibition in the form of a simple but non-uniform reference measure. This model does not lead to unrealistic bimodalities, can be found with Boltzmann learning, and has an associated Glauber dynamics which incorporates a minimal asymmetric inhibition. Networks of interacting units are ubiquitous in various fields of biology; e.g. gene regulatory networks, neuronal networks, social structures. If a limited set of observables is accessible, maximum-entropy models provide a way to construct a statistical model for such networks, under particular assumptions. The pairwise maximum-entropy model only uses the first two moments among those observables, and can be interpreted as a network with only pairwise interactions. If correlations are on average positive, we here show that the maximum entropy distribution tends to become bimodal. In the application to neuronal activity this is a problem, because the bimodality is an artefact of the statistical model and not observed in real data. This problem could also affect other fields in biology. We here explain under which conditions bimodality arises and present a solution to the problem by introducing a collective negative feedback, corresponding to a modified maximum-entropy model. This result may point to the existence of a homeostatic mechanism active in the system that is not part of our set of observable units.
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- Vahid Rostami
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
- Theoretical Systems Neurobiology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
- Department of Physics, Faculty 1, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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The cortical dynamics of speaking: Lexical and phonological knowledge simultaneously recruit the frontal and temporal cortex within 200 ms. Neuroimage 2017; 163:206-219. [PMID: 28943413 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.09.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2017] [Revised: 08/20/2017] [Accepted: 09/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Language production models typically assume that retrieving a word for articulation is a sequential process with substantial functional delays between conceptual, lexical, phonological and motor processing, respectively. Nevertheless, explicit evidence contrasting the spatiotemporal dynamics between different word production components is scarce. Here, using anatomically constrained magnetoencephalography during overt meaningful speech production, we explore the speed with which lexico-semantic versus acoustic-articulatory information of a to-be-uttered word become first neurophysiologically manifest in the cerebral cortex. We demonstrate early modulations of brain activity by the lexical frequency of a word in the temporal cortex and the left inferior frontal gyrus, simultaneously with activity in the motor and the posterior superior temporal cortex reflecting articulatory-acoustic phonological features (+LABIAL vs. +CORONAL) of the word-initial speech sounds (e.g., Monkey vs. Donkey). The specific nature of the spatiotemporal pattern correlating with a word's frequency and initial phoneme demonstrates that, in the course of speech planning, lexico-semantic and phonological-articulatory processes emerge together rapidly, drawing in parallel on temporal and frontal cortex. This novel finding calls for revisions of current brain language theories of word production.
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Costa GN, Duarte JV, Martins R, Wibral M, Castelo-Branco M. Interhemispheric Binding of Ambiguous Visual Motion Is Associated with Changes in Beta Oscillatory Activity but Not with Gamma Range Synchrony. J Cogn Neurosci 2017; 29:1829-1844. [PMID: 28654360 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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In vision, perceptual features are processed in several regions distributed across the brain. Yet, the brain achieves a coherent perception of visual scenes and objects through integration of these features, which are encoded in spatially segregated brain areas. How the brain seamlessly achieves this accurate integration is currently unknown and is referred to as the "binding problem." Among the proposed mechanisms meant to resolve the binding problem, the binding-by-synchrony hypothesis proposes that binding is carried out by the synchronization of distant neuronal assemblies. This study aimed at providing a critical test to the binding-by-synchrony hypothesis by evaluating long-range connectivity using EEG during a motion integration visual task that entails binding across hemispheres. Our results show that large-scale perceptual binding is not associated with long-range interhemispheric gamma synchrony. However, distinct perceptual interpretations were found to correlate with changes in beta power. Increased beta activity was observed during binding under ambiguous conditions and originates mainly from parietal regions. These findings reveal that the visual experience of binding can be identified by distinct signatures of oscillatory activity, regardless of long-range gamma synchrony, suggesting that such type of synchrony does not underlie perceptual binding.
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On memories, neural ensembles and mental flexibility. Neuroimage 2017; 157:297-313. [PMID: 28602817 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.05.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2017] [Revised: 05/30/2017] [Accepted: 05/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Memories are assumed to be represented by groups of co-activated neurons, called neural ensembles. Describing ensembles is a challenge: complexity of the underlying micro-circuitry is immense. Current approaches use a piecemeal fashion, focusing on single neurons and employing local measures like pairwise correlations. We introduce an alternative approach that identifies ensembles and describes the effective connectivity between them in a holistic fashion. It also links the oscillatory frequencies observed in ensembles with the spatial scales at which activity is expressed. Using unsupervised learning, biophysical modeling and graph theory, we analyze multi-electrode LFPs from frontal cortex during a spatial delayed response task. We find distinct ensembles for different cues and more parsimonious connectivity for cues on the horizontal axis, which may explain the oblique effect in psychophysics. Our approach paves the way for biophysical models with learned parameters that can guide future Brain Computer Interface development.
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Korndörfer C, Ullner E, García-Ojalvo J, Pipa G. Cortical Spike Synchrony as a Measure of Input Familiarity. Neural Comput 2017; 29:2491-2510. [PMID: 28599117 DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_00987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Spike synchrony, which occurs in various cortical areas in response to specific perception, action, and memory tasks, has sparked a long-standing debate on the nature of temporal organization in cortex. One prominent view is that this type of synchrony facilitates the binding or grouping of separate stimulus components. We argue instead for a more general function: a measure of the prior probability of incoming stimuli, implemented by long-range, horizontal, intracortical connections. We show that networks of this kind-pulse-coupled excitatory spiking networks in a noisy environment-can provide a sufficient substrate for stimulus-dependent spike synchrony. This allows for a quick (few spikes) estimate of the match between inputs and the input history as encoded in the network structure. Given the ubiquity of small, strongly excitatory subnetworks in cortex, we thus propose that many experimental observations of spike synchrony can be viewed as signs of input patterns that resemble long-term experience-that is, of patterns with high prior probability.
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- Clemens Korndörfer
- Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 49074 Osnabrück, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, and Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UD, U.K.
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- Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 49074 Osnabrück, Germany
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Solomon SS, Morley JW, Solomon SG. Spectral Signatures of Feedforward and Recurrent Circuitry in Monkey Area MT. Cereb Cortex 2017; 27:2793-2808. [PMID: 27170655 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Recordings of local field potential (LFP) in the visual cortex can show rhythmic activity at gamma frequencies (30-100 Hz). While the gamma rhythms in the primary visual cortex have been well studied, the structural and functional characteristics of gamma rhythms in extrastriate visual cortex are less clear. Here, we studied the spatial distribution and functional specificity of gamma rhythms in extrastriate middle temporal (MT) area of visual cortex in marmoset monkeys. We found that moving gratings induced narrowband gamma rhythms across cortical layers that were coherent across much of area MT. Moving dot fields instead induced a broadband increase in LFP in middle and upper layers, with weaker narrowband gamma rhythms in deeper layers. The stimulus dependence of LFP response in middle and upper layers of area MT appears to reflect the presence (gratings) or absence (dot fields and other textures) of strongly oriented contours. Our results suggest that gamma rhythms in these layers are propagated from earlier visual cortex, while those in the deeper layers may emerge in area MT.
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- Selina S Solomon
- Discipline of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences and Bosch Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.,Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, NSW 2560, Australia
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London WC1P 0AH, UK
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Elliott MA, du Bois N. Dynamical Constants and Time Universals: A First Step toward a Metrical Definition of Ordered and Abnormal Cognition. Front Psychol 2017; 8:332. [PMID: 28326054 PMCID: PMC5339249 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2016] [Accepted: 02/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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From the point of view of the cognitive dynamicist the organization of brain circuitry into assemblies defined by their synchrony at particular (and precise) oscillation frequencies is important for the correct correlation of all independent cortical responses to the different aspects of a given complex thought or object. From the point of view of anyone operating complex mechanical systems, i.e., those comprising independent components that are required to interact precisely in time, it follows that the precise timing of such a system is essential – not only essential but measurable, and scalable. It must also be reliable over observations to bring about consistent behavior, whatever that behavior is. The catastrophic consequence of an absence of such precision, for instance that required to govern the interference engine in many automobiles, is indicative of how important timing is for the function of dynamical systems at all levels of operation. The dynamics and temporal considerations combined indicate that it is necessary to consider the operating characteristic of any dynamical, cognitive brain system in terms, superficially at least, of oscillation frequencies. These may, themselves, be forensic of an underlying time-related taxonomy. Currently there are only two sets of relevant and necessarily systematic observations in this field: one of these reports the precise dynamical structure of the perceptual systems engaged in dynamical binding across form and time; the second, derived both empirically from perceptual performance data, as well as obtained from theoretical models, demonstrates a timing taxonomy related to a fundamental operator referred to as the time quantum. In this contribution both sets of theory and observations are reviewed and compared for their predictive consistency. Conclusions about direct comparability are discussed for both theories of cognitive dynamics and time quantum models. Finally, a brief review of some experimental data measuring sensitivity to visual information presented to the visual blind field (blindsight), as well as from studies of temporal processing in autism and schizophrenia, indicates that an understanding of a precise and metrical dynamic structure may be very important for an operational understanding of perception as well as more general cognitive function in psychopathology.
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- Mark A Elliott
- School of Psychology, National University of Ireland Galway Galway, Ireland
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- School of Psychology, National University of Ireland Galway Galway, Ireland
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Reaction times in visual search can be explained by a simple model of neural synchronization. Neural Netw 2017; 87:1-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2016.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2016] [Revised: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 12/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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What is the degree to which knowledge influences visual perceptual processes? This question, which is central to the seeing-versus-thinking debate in cognitive science, is often discussed using examples claimed to be proof of one stance or another. It has, however, also been muddled by the usage of different and unclear definitions of perception. Here, for the well-defined process of perceptual organization, I argue that including speed (or efficiency) into the equation opens a new perspective on the limits of top-down influences of thinking on seeing. While the input of the perceptual organization process may be modifiable and its output enrichable, the process itself seems so fast (or efficient) that thinking hardly has time to intrude and is effective mostly after the fact.
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Focusing on visual perceptual organization, this article contrasts the free-energy (FE) version of predictive coding (a recent Bayesian approach) to structural coding (a long-standing representational approach). Both use free-energy minimization as metaphor for processing in the brain, but their formal elaborations of this metaphor are fundamentally different. FE predictive coding formalizes it by minimization of prediction errors, whereas structural coding formalizes it by minimization of the descriptive complexity of predictions. Here, both sides are evaluated. A conclusion regarding competence is that FE predictive coding uses a powerful modeling technique, but that structural coding has more explanatory power. A conclusion regarding performance is that FE predictive coding-though more detailed in its account of neurophysiological data-provides a less compelling cognitive architecture than that of structural coding, which, for instance, supplies formal support for the computationally powerful role it attributes to neuronal synchronization.
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