EEG alpha oscillations: the inhibition-timing hypothesis.

By Wolfgang Klimesch, Paul Sauseng, Simon Hanslmayr. Brain Research Reviews, 2007

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Entrainment of brain oscillations by transcranial alternating current stimulation. (2014, positive): “Role of Alpha Oscillations for Visual Perception In general, alpha is assumed to be a rhythm that can actively suppress processing of irrelevant sensory information and therefore direct information flow to task-relevant neuronal structures (gating by inhibition hypothesis, reviewed in [22–24]).”
New vistas for α-frequency band oscillations (2007, neutral): “post-target-stimulus ERD, reflects the ‘spotlight of attention’ that is physiologically implemented indirectly by releasing the task-relevant areas from inhibition, through a ERD, and by suppressing task-irrelevant regions with large-amplitude a oscillations [ 7 ].”
On the Role of Prestimulus Alpha Rhythms over Occipito-Parietal Areas in Visual Input Regulation: Correlation or Causation? (2010, background): “, 2008), in line with its suggested inhibitory role in brain operations (Klimesch et al., 2007), we expected mainly inhibitory effects of alpha stimulation.”
The Phase of Ongoing EEG Oscillations Predicts Visual Perception (2009, background): “, 2007) on performance are related to the subject’s tonic state of attention or arousal, which usually fluctuates on a much longer timescale than the rhythmic modulations of excitability associated with oscillatory phase (Makeig and Jung, 1996; Klimesch et al., 2007).”
REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics (2019, background): “The a rhythm has been associated with a range of functions, including top-down inhibition (Klimesch et al., 2007).”
Inter- and intra-individual variability in alpha peak frequency (2014, background): “More recently, converging electrophysiological evidence suggests that the alpha rhythm actually plays an important and active role in cognitive processing (Cooper et al., 2003; Jensen andMazaheri, 2010; Klimesch et al., 2007).”
Alpha Oscillations Correlate with the Successful Inhibition of Unattended Stimuli (2011, background): “This notion has been developed into the alpha-inhibition hypothesis, proposing that low alpha activity is a signature of regions engaged in active neuronal processing, whereas strong alpha oscillations reflect the inhibition and disengagement of task-irrelevant cortical areas (for a review, see Klim”
Combining non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation with neuroimaging and electrophysiology: Current approaches and future perspectives (2016, positive): “, 2009), proposed to gate information processing by means of pulsed inhibition (Jensen and Mazaheri, 2010; Klimesch et al., 2007).”
Effects of SMR and Theta/Beta Neurofeedback on Reaction Times, Spatial Abilities, and Creativity (2011, background): “Similar to the function of the (increased) alpha rhythm, that is relevant for timing and inhibition (Klimesch, Sauseng, & Hanslmayr, 2007 ), the functional meaning of increased SMR amplitudes is decreased sensomotoric excitation.”
Prestimulus oscillations predict visual perception performance between and within subjects (2007, background): “These and other findings led to the conclusion that alpha power reflects an inhibitory filter mechanism (see Klimesch et al., 2007, for a review).”
A review of EEG, ERP, and neuroimaging studies of creativity and insight. (2010, background): “This idling interpretation has been turned nearly on its head in the past decade by studies showing that it occurs in participants who withhold or control the execution of a response (Klimesch, 1999; Klimesch et al., 2007).”
Beyond ERPs: Oscillatory neuronal dynamics (2012, positive): “Klimesch et al. (2006) were able to counter the claim of amplitude variance serving as an indicator of a phase-reset by integrating event related decreases in alpha amplitude in the model and finding that indeed the variance was unaffected in a phase-reset (Klimesch, Hanslmayr et al., 2006).”
Trial-by-trial coupling between EEG and BOLD identifies networks related to alpha and theta EEG power increases during working memory maintenance (2009, background): “Alpha power increases have been linked to active inhibition of neuronal activity that could otherwise disturb the WM process (Jokisch and Jensen, 2007; Klimesch et al., 2007).”
DEAP: A Database for Emotion Analysis ;Using Physiological Signals (2012, background): “The location of these effects over occipital regions, thus over visual cortices, might indicate a relative deactivation, or top-down inhibition, of these due to participants focusing on the pleasurable sound [43].”