Aperiodic and oscillatory systems underpinning human domain-general cognition
Runhao Lu, Nadene Dermody, John Duncan, Alexandra Woolgar · 2024
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Runhao Lu, Nadene Dermody, John Duncan, and Alexandra Woolgar probe in 2024 the brain rhythms behind flexible, general-purpose thinking. A front-and-parietal network lights up whenever any hard task begins, yet scans alone cannot say which electrical signals carry that response to rising demand.
Using magneto- and electroencephalography, the team split brain signals into steady rhythms and a sloping background component. Across three different tasks, both parts carried information about task demand, each in its own way. The findings give the brain's all-purpose system a two-part electrical signature, finer than scanner pictures alone could show.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Runhao Lu, Nadene Dermody, John Duncan, Alexandra Woolgar |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 78 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |