Brain function involves the activity of neuronal populations. Much recent effort has been
devoted to measuring the activity of neuronal populations in different parts of the brain under …

The current discussion on the neural correlates of the contents of consciousness (NCCc)
focuses mainly on the post-stimulus period of task-related activity. This neglects the …

During sleep, sensory stimuli rarely trigger a behavioral response or conscious perception.
However, it remains unclear whether sleep inhibits specific aspects of sensory processing …

Human and non-human animal behavior is highly malleable and adapts successfully to
internal and external demands. Such behavioral success stands in striking contrast to the …

Supported by recent computational studies, there is increasing evidence that a wide range
of neuronal responses can be understood as an emergent property of nonnegative sparse …

Modulation of interactions among neurons can manifest as dramatic changes in the state of
population dynamics in cerebral cortex. How such transitions in cortical state impact the …

The ability to discriminate between similar sensory stimuli relies on the amount of
information encoded in sensory neuronal populations. Such information can be substantially …

Instantaneous brain states have consequences for our sensation, perception, and
behaviour. Fluctuations in arousal and neural desynchronization likely pose perceptually …

Brain activity displays a large repertoire of dynamics across the sleep-wake cycle and even
during anesthesia. It was suggested that criticality could serve as a unifying principle …

Sensory representations, and thus human percepts, of the physical world are susceptible to
fluctuations in brain state or “neural irregularity”. Furthermore, aging brains display altered …