Low-frequency neuronal oscillations as instruments of sensory selection

By Charles E. Schroeder, Peter Lakatos. Trends in Neurosciences, 2008

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Neuroelectric oscillations reflect rhythmic shifting of neuronal ensembles between high and low excitability states. In natural settings, important stimuli often occur in rhythmic streams, and when oscillations entrain to an input rhythm their high excitability phases coincide with events in the stream, effectively amplifying neuronal input responses. When operating in a ‘rhythmic mode’, attention can use these differential excitability states as a mechanism of selection by simply enforcing oscillatory entrainment to a task-relevant input stream. When there is no low-frequency rhythm that oscillations can entrain to, attention operates in a ‘continuous mode’, characterized by extended increase in gamma synchrony. We review the evidence for early sensory selection by oscillatory phase-amplitude modulations, its mechanisms and its perceptual and behavioral consequences.

Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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The Phase of Ongoing EEG Oscillations Predicts Visual Perception (2009, background): “While an influence of phase on perception could be expected based on theoretical considerations (VanRullen and Koch, 2003; Schroeder and Lakatos, 2009), EEG experiments (Monto et al.”