Beta: bursts of cognition

M Lundqvist, EK Miller, J Nordmark, J Liljefors… - Trends in cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Beta oscillations are linked to the control of goal-directed processing of sensory information
and the timing of motor output. Recent evidence demonstrates they are not sustained but …

Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality

N Dijkstra, P Kok, SM Fleming - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
There is increasing evidence that imagination relies on similar neural mechanisms as
externally triggered perception. This overlap presents a challenge for perceptual reality …

Key roles of CACNA1C/Cav1. 2 and CALB1/calbindin in prefrontal neurons altered in cognitive disorders

D Datta, S Yang, MKP Joyce, E Woo… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The risk of mental disorders is consistently associated with variants inCACNA1C
(L-type calcium channel Cav1. 2) but it is not known why these channels are critical to …

Cross-hemispheric communication: Insights on lateralized brain functions

S Ocklenburg, ZV Guo - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
On the surface, the two hemispheres of vertebrate brains look almost perfectly symmetrical,
but several motor, sensory, and cognitive systems show a deeply lateralized organization …

ROSE: A neurocomputational architecture for syntax

E Murphy - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2024 - Elsevier
A comprehensive neural model of language must accommodate four components:
representations, operations, structures and encoding. Recent intracranial research has …

Intracranial substrates of meditation-induced neuromodulation in the amygdala and hippocampus

C Maher, L Tortolero, S Jun, DD Cummins… - Proceedings of the …, 2025 - pnas.org
Meditation is an accessible mental practice associated with emotional regulation and well-
being. Loving-kindness meditation (LKM), a specific subtype of meditative practice, involves …

Jointly looking to the past and the future in visual working memory

B Liu, ZS Alexopoulou, F van Ede - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Working memory enables us to bridge past sensory information to upcoming future
behaviour. Accordingly, by its very nature, working memory is concerned with two …

Cell type–specific profiles and developmental trajectories of transcriptomes in primate prefrontal layer 3 pyramidal neurons: implications for schizophrenia

D Arion, JF Enwright III… - American Journal of …, 2024 - psychiatryonline.org
Objective: In schizophrenia, impaired working memory is associated with transcriptome
alterations in layer 3 pyramidal neurons (L3PNs) in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex …

Neural substrates of visual perception and working memory: two sides of the same coin or two different coins?

M Roussy, D Mendoza-Halliday… - Frontiers in neural …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Visual perception occurs when a set of physical signals emanating from the environment
enter the visual system and the brain interprets such signals as a percept. Visual working …

Sensory recruitment revisited: ipsilateral V1 involved in visual working memory

YJ Zhao, KN Kay, Y Tian, Y Ku - Cerebral Cortex, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The “sensory recruitment hypothesis” posits an essential role of sensory cortices in working
memory, beyond the well-accepted frontoparietal areas. Yet, this hypothesis has recently …