Alpha-beta and gamma rhythms subserve feedback and feedforward influences among human visual cortical areas

By Georgios Michalareas, Julien Vezoli, S. van Pelt, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Henry Kennedy, Pascal Fries. Neuron, 2016

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Hierarchical Heterogeneity across Human Cortex Shapes Large-Scale Neural Dynamics (2018, background): “Furthermore, a laminar model will allow for layer-specific long-range projections which exhibit a hierarchical organization in feedforward and feedback signaling (Michalareas et al., 2016).”
Working Memory 2.0 (2018, unknown): “Inhibition is central to executive control and so is the knowledge about what needs to be controlled (Miller and Cohen, 2001).”
The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis (2018, background): “Recent advances in the neuroimaging of laminar anatomical projection patterns will help in this regard (29,36).”
Conscious Processing and the Global Neuronal Workspace Hypothesis (2020, background): “, 2016) leads to the emergence of frequency-bandspecific patterns of causality (bottom-up gamma arising primarily in supragranular layers, versus top-down alpha-beta arising primarily from bottom layers), which have been observed empirically across the cortical hierarchy in both human and non-human ”
Neural mechanisms of time-forward predictions for naturalistic auditory tone sequences (2026, unknown): “Early electrophysiological studies supporting the predictive coding framework found that predictions were conveyed by low-frequency signals in the top-down direction and PEs were conveyed by high-frequency signals in the bottom-up direction 5 – 7, 36,37 .”
Frequency Coding of Multisensory Integration in the Local Field Potentials of the Medial Pulvinar (2024, unknown): “In the cortex, low frequencies (around 8–15 Hz) are associated with feedback signals, while higher frequencies (around 30–80 Hz) are associated with feedforward signals and local spiking activity (Bastos et al. 2014; van Kerkoerle et al. 2014; Jensen et al. 2015; Michalareas et al. 2016).”
The development of oscillatory and aperiodic resting state activity is linked to a sensitive period in humans (2023, background): “As alpha and gamma activity have been linked to interareal feedback and feedforward processing, respectively (van Kerkoerle et al., 2014; Bastos et al., 2015; Michalareas et al., 2016; Vezoli et al., 2021), lower alpha activity accompanied by higher gamma activity might indicate an altered excitator”
Rhythms of human attention and memory: An embedded process perspective (2022, background): “, 2008), gamma band oscillations for object processing have now been reported after micro-saccadic artifacts are removed (Keren et al., 2010; Hassler et al., 2011; Michalareas et al., 2016; Köster et al., 2018).”
Causal role of cross-frequency coupling in distinct components of cognitive control (2021, background): “Together, directional signaling in gamma (beta) flows from bottom-up (top-down) across the visual hierarchy in humans (Michalareas et al., 2016) and non-human primates (Bastos et al., 2015).”
Top-down and bottom-up interactions rely on nested brain oscillations to shape rhythmic visual attention sampling (2025, unknown): “Similarly, in the human visual system, inter-areal rhythmic influences are observed to predominate in the alpha/beta bands along feedback projections [18,27,28], but in the gamma band along feedforward projections [19,28].”
Alpha oscillations support attentional orienting while beta supports perceptual decision-making (2026, unknown): “In particular, beta-band activity has been implicated in top-down signalling within frontoparietal networks (Bastos et al., 2015; Michalareas et al., 2016; Richter et al., 2017) and has been proposed to contribute to attentional sampling and stimulus processing (Fiebelkorn and Kastner, 2019; Di…”