ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2026
Dissociating Contributions of Theta and Alpha Oscillations from Aperiodic Neural Activity in Human Visual Working Memory.
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- Potential mechanisms and functional significance of aperiodic neural activity.Nature human behaviour · 2026Review
- Revisiting post-stimulus theta activity: evidence for an aperiodic rather than oscillatory origin.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Pallidal alpha activity is an electrophysiological biomarker of symptom severity in obsessive-compulsive disorder.Research square · 2026Article
- Dissociating stimulus encoding and task demands in ECoG responses from human visual cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Multimodal EEG and explainable machine learning characterize neuroticism-related neurodynamic heterogeneity in mild cognitive impairment during visuospatial working memory.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Functional Connectivity Is Dominated by Aperiodic, Rather Than Oscillatory, Coupling.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Differential representations of spatial location by aperiodic and alpha oscillatory activity in working memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Distinct and complementary mechanisms of oscillatory and aperiodic alpha activity in visuospatial attention.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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While visual working memory (WM) is strongly associated with reductions in occipitoparietal alpha (8-12 Hz) power, the role of frontal midline theta (4-7 Hz) power is less clear, with both increases and decreases widely reported. Here, we test the hypothesis that this theta paradox can be explained by nonoscillatory, aperiodic neural activity dynamics. Because traditional time-frequency analyses of electroencephalography (EEG) data conflate oscillations and aperiodic activity, event-related changes in aperiodic activity can manifest as task-related changes in apparent oscillations, even when none are present. Reanalyzing EEG data from two visual WM experiments (
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