Beta-band oscillations--signalling the status quo?

By Andreas K. Engel, Pascal Fries. 2010

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Systems

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On the Binding Problem in Artificial Neural Networks (2020, background): “…synchronized oscillatory behavior of individual neurons to perceptual grouping (Usher and Donnelly, 1998; Tallon-Baudry and Bertrand, 1999), attention (Niebur et al., 2002), and sensory-motor integration (Pesce Ibarra, 2017; Engel and Fries, 2010; see also Uhlhaas et al., 2009 for an overview).”
The ups and downs of β oscillations in sensorimotor cortex. (2013, positive): ““status quo”) (Engel and Fries, 2010), a notion partly inspired by a previous hypothesis viewing the beta rhythm as a marker of an “idling” state of the motor system (Jasper and Penfield, 1949; Pfurtscheller et al.”
The evolutionary neuroscience of musical beat perception: the Action Simulation for Auditory Prediction (ASAP) hypothesis (2013, background): “…the response to both tones 1 and 2 was larger when that tone was imagined to be on the beat (arrows). have been intimately associated with the motor system, and a recent hypothesis suggests that they are also associated with endogenously-driven top-down cognitive processes (Engel and Fries, 2010).”
Brain Mechanisms of Concept Learning (2019, background): “In terms of frequency, there is growing evidence that gamma versus beta oscillations are involved in bottom-up versus top-down processing, respectively (Buschman and Miller, 2007; Jensen et al., 2007; Engel and Fries, 2010).”
What do we mean by prediction in language comprehension? (2015, background): “…better suited for capturing top-down predictive neural activity, prior to the onset of an incoming stimulus (for general discussion, see Arnal & Giraud, 2012; Engel & Fries, 2010; Weiss & Mueller, 2012, and for recent discussion in relation to language comprehension, see Lewis & Bastiaansen, 2015).”
Consensus Paper: Roles of the Cerebellum in Motor Control—The Diversity of Ideas on Cerebellar Involvement in Movement (2011, background): “role in the sculpting and coordination of disparate neural populations in the sensorimotor system [287, 288].”
Shaping Functional Architecture by Oscillatory Alpha Activity: Gating by Inhibition (2010, background): “However, beta band activity has also been proposed to play a more active role such as maintenance of the status quo (Engel and Fries, 2010).”
Spectral fingerprints of large-scale neuronal interactions (2012, background): “A related account postulates that large-scale beta-band oscillations reflect maintenance of the status quo in large-scale cortical networks, whereas gamma-band oscillations predominate if changes in the stimulus are expecte”
Causal Evidence for the Role of Neuronal Oscillations in Top-Down and Bottom-Up Attention (2019, unknown): “Beta-band oscillations are found during a variety of tasks that require top-down attention (Engel & Fries, 2010).”
Abnormal Brain Connectivity Patterns in Children with Global Developmental Delay Accompanied by Cognitive Impairment: A Resting-State EEG Study. (2025, unknown): “…to efficiently clear redundant synapses due to developmental disorders while excessively eliminating frequently used synapses, leading to abnormal lo-cal functional connectivity and reduced information processing efficiency—a mechanism widely accepted in other neurodevelopmental disorders [53,54].”