ReviewNeuron2023
Rhythmic attentional scanning.
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- Gamma-band synchronization between neurons in the visual cortex is causal for effective information processing and behavior.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Enhancing deep neural networks through complex-valued representations and Kuramoto synchronization dynamics.ArXiv · 2025Article
- Traveling waves link human visual and frontal cortex during working memory-guided behavior.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Stimulus representations in visual cortex shaped by spatial attention and microsaccades.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Linking brain activity across scales with simultaneous opto- and electrophysiology.Neurophotonics · 2024Review
- Delta-alpha/beta coupling as a signature of visual working memory in the prefrontal cortex.iScience · 2024Article
- Common and distinct neural mechanisms of attention.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2024Review
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Abstract
Sensory processing, short-term memory, and decision-making often deal with multiple items, or options, simultaneously. I review evidence suggesting that the brain handles such multiple items by "rhythmic attentional scanning (RAS)": each item is processed in a separate cycle of the theta rhythm, involving several gamma cycles, to reach an internally consistent representation in the form of a gamma-synchronized neuronal group. Within each theta cycle, items that are extended in representational space are scanned by traveling waves. Such scanning might go across small numbers of simple items linked into a chunk.
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