How rhythms of the sleeping brain tune memory and synaptic plasticity

C Puentes-Mestril, J Roach, N Niethard, M Zochowski… - Sleep, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Decades of neurobehavioral research has linked sleep-associated rhythms in various brain
areas to improvements in cognitive performance. However, it remains unclear what synaptic …

Phase-resetting as a tool of information transmission

CC Canavier - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•The phase of population oscillators underlying brain rhythms can be reset.•Phase-
resetting theory can help explain how brain rhythms phase-lock.•Phase-locking between …

Functional synchronization: The emergence of coordinated activity in human systems

A Nowak, RR Vallacher, M Zochowski… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The topical landscape of psychology is highly compartmentalized, with distinct phenomena
explained and investigated with recourse to theories and methods that have little in …

Exploration in neo-Hebbian reinforcement learning: Computational approaches to the exploration–exploitation balance with bio-inspired neural networks

A Triche, AS Maida, A Kumar - Neural Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent theoretical and experimental works have connected Hebbian plasticity with the
reinforcement learning (RL) paradigm, producing a class of trial-and-error learning in …

[图书][B] In sync: The emergence of function in minds, groups and societies

AK Nowak, RR Vallacher, R Praszkier, A Rychwalska… - 2020 - books.google.com
This book introduces the reader to the concept of functional synchronization and how it
operates on very different levels in psychological and social systems–from the emergence of …

Theta-gamma coupling emerges from spatially heterogeneous cholinergic neuromodulation

Y Yang, H Gritton, M Sarter, SJ Aton… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Theta and gamma rhythms and their cross-frequency coupling play critical roles in
perception, attention, learning, and memory. Available data suggest that forebrain …

Network design and the brain

S Navlakha, Z Bar-Joseph, AL Barth - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Neural circuits have evolved to accommodate similar information processing challenges as
those faced by engineered systems. Here, we compare neural versus engineering strategies …

Meningeal mast cell‐mediated mechanisms of cholinergic system modulation in neurogenic inflammation underlying the pathophysiology of migraine

E Kilinc, IE Torun… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Growing evidence indicates that the parasympathetic system is implicated in migraine
headache. However, the cholinergic mechanisms in the pathophysiology of migraine remain …

Acetylcholine facilitates localized synaptic potentiation and location specific feature binding

Y Yang, V Booth, M Zochowski - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Forebrain acetylcholine (ACh) signaling has been shown to drive attention and learning.
Recent experimental evidence of spatially and temporally constrained cholinergic signaling …

Acetylcholine-gated current translates wake neuronal firing rate information into a spike timing-based code in Non-REM sleep, stabilizing neural network dynamics …

QM Skilling, B Eniwaye, BC Clawson… - PLoS Computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Sleep is critical for memory consolidation, although the exact mechanisms mediating this
process are unknown. Combining reduced network models and analysis of in vivo …