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Traveling waves across scales: Different mechanisms but same canonical computation?
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- Propofol-induced loss of responsiveness reorganizes cortical traveling waves in the human brain.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Cortex-wide characterization of decision-making neural dynamics during spatial navigation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The Axon as a Self-Modifying Computational System: Autonomous Inference, Adaptive Propagation, and AI-Enabled Mechanistic Insight.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- A proposal for realizing cognitive functions using traveling waves, phase-locked and synchronized patterns, holography, neural mixing, and single sideband communications.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Quantifying cortex-wide traveling brain waves of complex patterns with a graph-based algorithm.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
Non-stationary dynamical cortical states - neural activity changing on the topology of the cortex across time - and in particular traveling waves, is an emerging topic. In this article, we propose that similar spatio-temporal traveling wave patterns observed across cortical scales are underpinned by generative mechanisms that differ in nature, that we categorize as first- and second-order traveling waves. This original definition provides a unifying framework making testable predictions at both mechanistic and functional levels. While having diverse mechanistic origins, we propose that traveling waves across spatial and temporal scales subserve a canonical computation at the core of a variety of brain functions, thereby ordering neuronal processing to impose a computational syntax.
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