Brains oscillate within specific frequency ranges to facilitate neural communication
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SUPPORTED
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Extensive neuroscientific evidence supports the view that the brain utilizes specific oscillatory frequency ranges and cross-frequency coupling to coordinate neural communication and regulate information flow across regions.
Evidence for · 9
Entrained neural oscillations in multiple frequency bands comodulate behavior
2014 · cited by 208
Demonstrates that neural phase in multiple frequency bands synchronizes with environmental stimulus rhythms and interacts to shape target-detection performance.
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Oscillatory Coupling Between Neural and Cardiac Rhythms
2024 · cited by 22
Highlights oscillatory coupling as a fundamental mechanism of communication within biological systems and the brain.
Targeted rhythmic visual stimulation at individual participants' intrinsic alpha frequency causes selective increase of occipitoparietal BOLD-fMRI and EEG functional connectivity
2023 · cited by 13
Provides evidence that phase coupling of frequency-specific neural oscillations regulates information flow across distributed brain regions.
Speech Reception in Young Children with Autism Is Selectively Indexed by a Neural Oscillation Coupling Anomaly
2023 · cited by 7
Shows that speech perception relies on specific frequency bands and cross-frequency oscillation coupling to track dynamic acoustic stimuli.
High-Gamma Activity Is Coupled to Low-Gamma Oscillations in Precentral Cortices and Modulates with Movement and Speech
2023 · cited by 5
Proposes and finds that phase-amplitude coupling between different oscillatory frequency bands reflects neural communication during movement and speech.
How strong is the rhythm of perception? A registered replication of Hickok <i>et al</i>. (2015).
2025 · cited by 2
Replicates findings confirming the presence of oscillatory influences on target detection accuracy.
Slow and fast gamma oscillations show phase-amplitude coupling with distinct high-frequency bands in macaque primary visual cortex
2024 · cited by 2
Shows how distinct gamma oscillation frequency bands exhibit phase-amplitude coupling to modulate neural activity.
Human neuronal firing varies with the frequency of local field potential oscillations.
2026 · cited by 1
Demonstrates that the instantaneous frequency of local field potential oscillations modulates neuronal firing to aid information processing.
Structure-function coupling of large-scale cortical networks across the lifespan is spectrally specific.
2026 · cited by 1
Establishes that local rhythmic neural activity operates in spectrally specific frequency patterns across large-scale cortical networks.