Neural synchrony plays a fundamental role in human cognition and information processing
Extensive neuroscience literature supports the fundamental role of neural synchrony in human cognition, showing that coordinated oscillatory activity across brain regions underlies memory, perception, and information processing.
The retrieved papers consistently demonstrate across computational models, EEG/MEG studies, and review articles that neural synchrony and oscillatory coupling are critical mechanisms for large-scale brain communication, information processing, and cognitive functions such as working memory and perception.
Rabiya Noori, Daniel Park, J. Griffiths, Sonya Bells, P. Frankland, D. Mabbott, J. Lefebvre. Activity-dependent myelination: A glial mechanism of oscillatory self-organization in large-scale brain networks. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916646117
Paper 0 establishes that activity-dependent myelination coordinates large-scale brain networks, promoting neural phase synchronization essential for efficient cognitive processes and communication.
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Alexis Roy, Frans Svensson, A. Mazeh, B. Kocsis. Prefrontal-hippocampal coupling by theta rhythm and by 2–5 Hz oscillation in the delta band: The role of the nucleus reuniens of the thalamus. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-017-1374-6
Paper 1 demonstrates how low-frequency oscillatory synchronizations between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex mediate key cognitive functions like working memory.
Kai S. Gansel. Neural synchrony in cortical networks: mechanisms and implications for neural information processing and coding. 2022. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2022.900715
Paper 2 reviews classical and modern concepts supporting the view that synchronized neuronal discharges play a prevalent and functionally important role in cortical coding and cognitive functions.
Ashok S. Chauhan, Joseph D. Taylor, A. Nogaret. Dual Mechanism for the Emergence of Synchronization in Inhibitory Neural Networks. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29822-8
Paper 3 shows that cortical microcircuits synchronize during cognitive tasks to bind stimuli into unified perceptions, supported by inhibitory neural networks.
Youngmin Park, Stewart Heitmann, G. Ermentrout. The Utility of Phase Models in Studying Neural Synchronization. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119159193.ch36
Paper 4 links synchronized neural spiking directly to various cognitive functions through coupled neural oscillators and phase response curves.
Martin Sjøgård, M. Bourguignon, L. Costers, A. Dumitrescu, Tim Coolen, Liliia Roshchupkina, Florian Destoky, J. Bertels, Maxime Niesen, M. V. Ghinst, J. Van Schependom, G. Nagels, C. Urbain, P. Peigneux, S. Goldman, M. Woolrich, X. De Tiège, V. Wens. Intrinsic/extrinsic duality of large-scale neural functional integration in the human brain. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.21.053579
Paper 5 reveals that extrinsic functional brain integration in the human brain is fundamentally supported by phase synchronization.
Badhan Mazumder, Lei Wu, Sir-Lord Wiafe, Vince D. Calhoun, D. Ye. KOCOBrain: Kuramoto-Guided Graph Network for Uncovering Structure-Function Coupling in Adolescent Prenatal Drug Exposure. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI61048.2026.11515768
Paper 6 integrates structural and functional connectomes via Kuramoto-based phase dynamics to demonstrate how neural synchronization underpins cognitive network coordination.
Josep Rossello, Vincent Canals, Antoni Morro. Neural Information Processing: between synchrony and chaos. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2012.6935.1
Paper 8 demonstrates that synchronized cell states in neural systems are crucial for non-linear computations and higher-level cognitive operations.
Chen C, Jose D, Cheng PK, Massa JJ, Li W. Linking EEG markers of oscillopathy and default mode network dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.. 2026. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2026.1750878
Paper 11 links reductions in long-range neural synchrony and oscillatory abnormalities to default mode network dysfunction and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease.
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