Using high-density electroencephalography in humans, a bilateral entrainment response to the rhythm (1.3 or 1.5 Hz) of an attended stimulation stream was observed, concurrent with a considerably weaker contralateral entrainment to a competing rhythm. That ipsilateral visual areas strongly entrained to the attended stimulus is notable because competitive inputs to these regions were being driven at an entirely different rhythm. Strong modulations of phase locking and weak modulations of single-trial power suggest that entrainment was primarily driven by phase-alignment of ongoing oscillatory activity.
10 simple rules for the care and feeding of scientific data→
/Lots of good advice here.
Rule 2. Share Your Data Online, with a Permanent Identifier
Brain rhythms and dynamic coordination ($)→
/Special issue of Current Opinion in Neurobiology has some good articles.
The effect of aging on fMRI: Correction for the effects of vascular reactivity→
/Important paper from Tsvetanov, Cam-CAN et al. on vascular effects in aging in a sample of 335 subjects.
The scaling analysis revealed that much of the effects of age on task-based activation studies with fMRI do not survive correction for changes in vascular reactivity, and are likely to have been overestimated in previous fMRI studies of ageing.
Cortical activity predicts which older adults recognize speech in noise→
/New paper from Kenny Vaden and the Eckert lab on spoken word recognition in older adults implicating the cingulo-opercular network in correct recognition.
Semantic advantage for learning new phonological form representations ($)→
/Semantic associations affect MMN responses to consolidated newly-learned words.
The connectomics of brain disorders ($)→
/Review on the application of graph theory and connectivity in the context of brain disease. I'm not yet convinced but it's an interesting idea.
Neural alpha dynamics in younger and older listeners reflect acoustic challenges→
/Alpha oscillations, listening effort, and age from the Obleser lab.
Accurate automatic estimation of total intracranial volume→
/Compares various automated TIV-calculation routines to the "gold standard" of manual tracing. Freesurfer and SPM12 do well; SPM8 does poorly. Although the paper focuses on TIV, the results suggest SPM12 segmentation is better overall.
Great reading list on neural oscillations and perception→
/Put together by Greg Hickok for a graduate seminar - lots of excellent articles here.
Asynchronies in AV signals regulate multisensory interactions→
/Audiovisual asynchronies affect the phase of low-frequency neural oscillations in voice-sensitive regions of primate cortex.
Frontiers research topic on the functions of musical rhythm→
/Lots of interesting-sounding articles in this one.
Auditory connections and functions of prefrontal cortex→
/Interesting review article from Plakke and Romanski on auditory connectivity and auditory functions of prefrontal cortex.
Spreading of pathology in neurodegenerative diseases (review)→
/Disease-related proteints may spread through neural connectivity. Maybe this is one reason why in many cases neurodegenerative atrophy appears to "target" specficic neural systems?
Human tonotopic organization using EMEG→
/Source-localized MEG/EEG responses to single words show tonotopic gradients in temporal cortex.
