ArticleNature communications2026
Planar, spiral, and concentric traveling waves distinguish behavioral states in human memory.
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- Random auditory stimulation during sleep disturbs traveling slow waves and declarative memory.iScience · 2026Article
- Hidden Spirals Reveal the Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Traveling Waves in Human Memory.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Quantifying cortex-wide traveling brain waves of complex patterns with a graph-based algorithm.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- 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
- A wireless subdural-contained brain-computer interface with 65,536 electrodes and 1,024 channels.Nature electronics · 2025Article
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- Stable, chronic in-vivo recordings from a fully wireless subdural-contained 65,536-electrode brain-computer interface device.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- On the robustness of the emergent spatiotemporal dynamics in biophysically realistic and phenomenological whole-brain models at multiple network resolutions.Frontiers in network physiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
A fundamental challenge in neuroscience is explaining how widespread brain regions flexibly interact to support behaviors. We hypothesize that traveling waves of oscillations are a key mechanism of neural coordination, such that they propagate across the cortex in distinctive spatial patterns that control how different regions interact. To test this hypothesis, we used direct brain recordings from humans performing multiple memory experiments and an analytical framework that flexibly measures the propagation patterns of traveling waves. We found that traveling waves propagated along the cortex in not only plane waves, but also spirals, sources and sinks, and more complex patterns. The propagation patterns of traveling waves correlated with novel aspects of behavior, with specific spatial patterns reflecting particular cortical processes and even individual remembered items. Our findings show that large-scale cortical patterns of traveling waves reveal a diverse range of spatial patterns in the brain that are relevant for neural decoding.
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