Topic: brain-wide communication

A well-established hypothesis in neuroscience proposes that the fundamental unit of brain computation consists of synchronized groups of neurons, known as cell assemblies. Our team demonstrated the existence of reader neurons, responsive to the activity of cell assemblies from upstream brain structures, and showed that functional links between assemblies and their readers are modified through learning processes. On the other hand, there is accumulating evidence that brain-wide dynamics are characterized by neuronal avalanches, namely aperiodic bursts of activity spreading across the population