Like a stadium full of sports fans doing the wave, neurons coordinate their electrical signals in rhythmic patterns that sweep across the cortex, the brain’s outermost layer.
Recent studies in humans and animals have shown these patterns, called traveling waves, can take on complex shapes, among them a rotating spiral that has been observed during deep sleep, memory retrieval, and other brain processes.
A new study has now captured the fast-spinning waves spanning whole brains, offering clues to how they’re organized and what they might do.
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#JNeurosci: Findings from @xlzhope, @zaixucui et al. provide insight into how the brain supports efficient large-scale communication and link brain structure to fast neural dynamics.
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The Helmholtz decomposition is one of the fundamental results of vector calculus.
It says any well-behaved vector field can be split into two parts, one capturing sources and sinks through divergence, and one capturing rotation through curl.
I'm very excited to share that my very first first-author paper is now published🎉
https://t.co/LzE3hfQI0L
Here are the key points of our work:
・Synaptic pruning is mathematically equivalent to statistical structure learning.
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