Neural Oscillations: Communication and Information Encoding

CNBC Brain Bag
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC)

Neural Oscillations: Communication and Information Encoding

Mariya Toneva
Graduate Student
Carnegie Mellon University
May 1, 2017 - 6:00pm
Mellon Social Room

In this talk we will examine the hypothesized role of network oscillations in information encoding in the human brain. In particular, we will focus on the relationship between neural encoding of information in different cortical regions during reading and functional connectivity between these multiple regions in different frequency bands. We will discuss preliminary evidence suggesting that regions that encode certain information are more functionally connected during the optimal decoding time than during a comparison time, and are also more functionally connected to each other than to other regions that are not found to represent this information. We will further discuss how the relationship between connectivity and information encoding varies across different frequency bands.