Rhythmic Brain Figure (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Rhythmic Brain Figure

Caption

This is an illustration of how brain rhythms organize distributed groups of neurons into functional cell assemblies. The colors represent different cell assemblies. Neurons in widely separated brain areas often need to work together without interfering with other, spatially overlapping groups. Each assembly is sensitive to different frequencies, producing independent patterns of coordinated neural activity, depicted as color traces to the right of each network.

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Ryan Canolty, UC Berkeley

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