ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
Traveling waves link human visual and frontal cortex during working memory-guided behavior.
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- Traveling waves along the cortical depth reflect structured synaptic inputs.Research square · 2026Article
- Traveling-wave transcranial alternating current stimulation (twtACS) causally links neural timing to cognitive function.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Cortex-wide characterization of decision-making neural dynamics during spatial navigation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A Spatiotemporal Perspective on Dynamical Computation in Neural Information Processing Systems.ArXiv · 2026Article
- Reactivating cue approached positive personality traits during sleep promotes positive self-referential processing.iScience · 2024Article
- Advancing working memory research through cortico-cortical transcranial magnetic stimulation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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Traveling waves guide the spatial propagation of neural activity and computational processes across the brain. Traveling waves could contribute to the control of memory-guided behaviors by flexibly organizing the timing and direction of interactions between brain regions responsible for storing memory content with those responsible for producing task-relevant behaviors. Using short-term memory as a test case, we report evidence supporting this possibility. Analyses of human EEG data revealed forward- and backward-propagating traveling waves linking visual and motor brain areas around the time of a memory-guided behavior. These waves predicted intra- and interindividual differences in task performance, could not be explained by eye movements or passive volume conduction, and were absent when participants planned but could not execute a memory-guided behavior. These findings implicate traveling waves as a mechanism in the initiation and control of memory-guided behaviors.
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