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. 2022 Aug;25(8):980-981.
doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01119-0.

Traveling and standing waves in the brain

Javier Gonzalez-Castillo  1
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Traveling and standing waves in the brain

Javier Gonzalez-Castillo. Nat Neurosci. 2022 Aug.

Abstract

Studying the natural wanderings of the living brain is extremely challenging. Bolt et al. describe a new framework to consider the brain’s intrinsic activity based on the geophysical concepts of standing and traveling waves.

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Figure 1.
Examples of traveling waves (A) and standing waves (B) in the real world. (C) Schematic of the proposed framework to understand resting-state intrinsic fluctuations as the combination of three spatiotemporal patterns with varying levels of standing and traveling behaviors.
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