Topic: brain recordings

Neurons in the brain have tight anatomical connections through dendritic arborizations that integrate diverse inputs and axons that project outputs to multiple, distributed areas. How do individual neurons or regions reorganize their activity so that they selectively process particular inputs and direct their outputs to match the timescale of behaviors? In this work, we show that large-scale cortical “traveling waves” underlie this rapid and selective reorganization, by propagating in specific directions, thus flexibly and efficiently communicating between the given brain regions. We designed