Beta and gamma rhythms go with the flow

Chenguang Zheng; Laura Lee Colgin

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.12.067

Beta and gamma rhythms go with the flow

Neuron. 2015 Jan 21;85(2):236-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.12.067.

Authors

Chenguang Zheng¹, Laura Lee Colgin²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Learning and Memory, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station Stop C7000, Austin, TX 78712-0805, USA.
² Center for Learning and Memory, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station Stop C7000, Austin, TX 78712-0805, USA. Electronic address: colgin@mail.clm.utexas.edu.

Abstract

Information flows through visual areas in opposite directions during "bottom-up" intake of current stimuli and "top-down" processes such as attention or memory. In this issue of Neuron, Bastos et al. (2015) report that rhythms of different frequencies coordinate bottom-up and top-down information streams.

Publication types

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MeSH terms

Animals
Beta Rhythm / physiology*
Feedback, Physiological / physiology*
Gamma Rhythm / physiology*
Male
Theta Rhythm / physiology*
Visual Cortex / physiology*

Grants and funding

R01 MH102450/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States