Neural Oscillations: Sustained Rhythms or Transient Burst-Events?
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Infant Auditory Processing and Event-related Brain Oscillations
Published on: July 1, 2015
Freek van Ede1, Andrew J Quinn1, Mark W Woolrich1
1Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Abstract:
Frequency-specific patterns of neural activity are increasingly interpreted as transient bursts of isolated events rather than as rhythmically sustained oscillations. This has potentially far-reaching implications for theories of how such oscillations originate and how they shape neural computations. As this debate unfolds, we explore alternative interpretations and ask how best to distinguish between them.
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