Paradox lost? Exploring the role of alpha oscillations during externally vs. internally directed attention and the implications for idling and inhibition hypotheses.

By N. Cooper, R. Croft, Samuel J J Dominey, A. Burgess, John H. Gruzelier. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2003

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EEG alpha oscillations: the inhibition-timing hypothesis. (2007, background): “…pronounced ERS can be observed during retention (Klimesch et al., 1999; Jensen et al., 2002; Schack and Klimesch, 2002; Busch and Herrmann, 2003; Cooper et al., 2003; Herrmann et al., 2004a; Sauseng et al., 2005b) but a strong ERD during retrieval, i.e., after the presentation of a probe (cf.…”
Brain correlates underlying creative thinking: EEG alpha activity in professional vs. novice dancers (2009, neutral): “However, meanwhile there is a large body of evidence which indicates that synchronization of alpha activity does not merely reflect cortical deactivation or cortical idling (e.g. Cooper et al., 2003; Jensen et al., 2002; Klimesch et al., 1999, 2007; Ray and Cole, 1985; Sauseng et al., 2005).”
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).”
Beta-range cortical motor spectral power and corticomuscular coherence as a mechanism for effective corticospinal interaction during steady-state motor output (2007, background): “…over the contralateral motor area and muscle activity (Murthy and Fetz, 1992; Sanes and Donoghue, 1993; Conway et al., 1995; Salenius et al., 1997; Baker et al., 1999; Mima and Hallett, 1999; Schnitzler et al., 2000; Feige et al., 2000; Brown, 2000; Gross et al., 2000; Kilner et al., 2000).”
Prestimulus oscillations predict visual perception performance between and within subjects (2007, background): “Alpha amplitudes have also been found to increase when subjects shift their attention inwards (Ray and Cole, 1985; Cooper et al., 2003) and decrease if a stimulus is expected (Worden et al.”
The Berlin Brain–Computer Interface: Non-Medical Uses of BCI Technology (2010, result): “However, it is in line with a study, in which a positive correlation was found between alpha-power and increasing task demand (Cooper et al., 2003).”
Prestimulus Oscillatory Activity in the Alpha Band Predicts Visual Discrimination Ability (2008, result): “Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that increases in posterior alpha activity reflect inhibition or disengagement of posterior areas (Ray and Cole, 1985a,b; Vanni et al., 1997; Klimesch et al., 2000; Jensen et al., 2002; Cooper et al., 2003; Tuladhar et al., 2007).”
Neural Activity When People Solve Verbal Problems with Insight (2004, background): “This has been attributed to gating of visual information flowing into the perceptual system in order to protect fragile or resource-intensive processes from interference from bottomup stimulation (Ray and Cole 1985; Worden et al. 2001; Jensen et al. 2002; Cooper et al. 2003; Ward 2003).”
Rhythms of human attention and memory: An embedded process perspective (2022, background): “, 2010), which may serve the inhibition of interfering sensory information during WM maintenance (Cooper et al., 2003).”
Inhibitory control in WM gate-opening: Insights from alpha desynchronization and norepinephrine activity under atDCS stimulation (2024, background): “…decreases in alpha band activity has been identified as reflecting the ability to gate information by inhibiting task-irrelevant processes (Cooper et al., 2003; Jensen and Mazaheri, 2010; Klimesch et al., 2007; Konjusha et al., 2022; Van Diepen et al., 2019; Yu et al., 2021; Zhang et al.,…”