Hierarchical dynamics as a macroscopic organizing principle of the human brain

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Aperiodic neural timescales in prefrontal cortex dilate with increased task abstraction (2025, unknown): “The regions of cortex with the longest timescales are also the regions most closely associated with greater task abstraction (5,12,19,20).”
Intrinsic neural timescales in the temporal lobe support an auditory processing hierarchy (2022, methodology): “We did not find evidence for gradients of timescales within the hippocampus and amygdala, contrary to a recent magnetic resonance imaging study (Raut et al., 2020), possibly because of a sparser coverage or because these may only manifest at very slow dynamics.”
Developmental relationships between the human alpha rhythm and intrinsic neural timescales are dependent on neural hierarchy (2025, unknown): “Moreover, similar INT-based hierarchies emerge across mammalian species (25,28,30), suggesting INT is a robust and generalizable measure of neural processing hierarchy.”