Challenges and Approaches in the Study of Neural Entrainment DOI
Katharina Duecker, Keith B. Doelling, Assaf Breska

et al.

Journal of Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 44(40), P. e1234242024 - e1234242024

Published: Oct. 2, 2024

When exposed to rhythmic stimulation, the human brain displays activity across sensory modalities and regions. Given ubiquity of this phenomenon, how rhythms are transformed into neural remains surprisingly inconclusive. An influential model posits that endogenous oscillations entrain external rhythms, thereby encoding environmental dynamics shaping perception. However, research on entrainment faces multiple challenges, from ambiguous definitions methodological difficulties when need be identified disentangled other stimulus-related mechanisms can lead similar phase-locked responses. Yet, recent years have seen novel approaches overcome these including computational modeling, insights dynamical systems theory, sophisticated stimulus designs, study neuropsychological impairments. This review outlines key challenges in research, delineates state-of-the-art approaches, integrates findings animal neurophysiology provide a broad perspective usefulness, validity, constraints oscillatory models brain-environment interaction.

Language: Английский

Challenges and Approaches in the Study of Neural Entrainment DOI
Katharina Duecker, Keith B. Doelling, Assaf Breska

et al.

Journal of Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 44(40), P. e1234242024 - e1234242024

Published: Oct. 2, 2024

When exposed to rhythmic stimulation, the human brain displays activity across sensory modalities and regions. Given ubiquity of this phenomenon, how rhythms are transformed into neural remains surprisingly inconclusive. An influential model posits that endogenous oscillations entrain external rhythms, thereby encoding environmental dynamics shaping perception. However, research on entrainment faces multiple challenges, from ambiguous definitions methodological difficulties when need be identified disentangled other stimulus-related mechanisms can lead similar phase-locked responses. Yet, recent years have seen novel approaches overcome these including computational modeling, insights dynamical systems theory, sophisticated stimulus designs, study neuropsychological impairments. This review outlines key challenges in research, delineates state-of-the-art approaches, integrates findings animal neurophysiology provide a broad perspective usefulness, validity, constraints oscillatory models brain-environment interaction.

Language: Английский

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