Non-invasive imaging of propagating cortical rhythms

Although cortical rhythms are known to play a fundamental role in perception and cognition, their spatiotemporal behavior is not well characterized yet, which hampers understanding of the involved mechanisms. The dominating view is that cortical rhythms are organized as functional networks in which...

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Main Author: Gustavo Deco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fnsys.2015.06.00014/full
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description Although cortical rhythms are known to play a fundamental role in perception and cognition, their spatiotemporal behavior is not well characterized yet, which hampers understanding of the involved mechanisms. The dominating view is that cortical rhythms are organized as functional networks in which spatially confined rhythms interact through white-matter pathways. In contrast, voltage sensitive dye imaging studies suggest that, at least on small spatial scales, cortical rhythms propagate and are organized as traveling waves. We argue that this view is appropriate also for large-scale rhythms as recorded with EEG and MEG and present data to illustrate this view. We propose improvements on existing methods for reconstructing the cortical currents underlying propagating rhythms as recorded with EEG and MEG, with particular focus on spatiotemporal regularization techniques. We compare the different methods through biophysical simulations.
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spelling doaj.art-77394ba5247d415caa441bf573e67ee52022-12-22T03:52:28ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience1662-51372015-04-01910.3389/conf.fnsys.2015.06.00014146570Non-invasive imaging of propagating cortical rhythmsGustavo Deco0Universitat Pompeu FabraAlthough cortical rhythms are known to play a fundamental role in perception and cognition, their spatiotemporal behavior is not well characterized yet, which hampers understanding of the involved mechanisms. The dominating view is that cortical rhythms are organized as functional networks in which spatially confined rhythms interact through white-matter pathways. In contrast, voltage sensitive dye imaging studies suggest that, at least on small spatial scales, cortical rhythms propagate and are organized as traveling waves. We argue that this view is appropriate also for large-scale rhythms as recorded with EEG and MEG and present data to illustrate this view. We propose improvements on existing methods for reconstructing the cortical currents underlying propagating rhythms as recorded with EEG and MEG, with particular focus on spatiotemporal regularization techniques. We compare the different methods through biophysical simulations.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fnsys.2015.06.00014/fullEEGneural circuitscomputational neurosciencenon-invasive imagingpropagationcortical rhythms
spellingShingle Gustavo Deco
Non-invasive imaging of propagating cortical rhythms
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
EEG
neural circuits
computational neuroscience
non-invasive imaging
propagation
cortical rhythms
title Non-invasive imaging of propagating cortical rhythms
title_full Non-invasive imaging of propagating cortical rhythms
title_fullStr Non-invasive imaging of propagating cortical rhythms
title_full_unstemmed Non-invasive imaging of propagating cortical rhythms
title_short Non-invasive imaging of propagating cortical rhythms
title_sort non invasive imaging of propagating cortical rhythms
topic EEG
neural circuits
computational neuroscience
non-invasive imaging
propagation
cortical rhythms
url http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fnsys.2015.06.00014/full
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