Topic: Communication-through-Coherence hypothesis

Selective attention implements the preferential routing of attended stimuli, likely through increasing the gain of the respective synaptic inputs to higher-area neurons. As the synaptic inputs conveying competing stimuli converge and intermingle on postsynaptic neurons, impeding selective attentional addressing, presynaptic circuits might be the best target of top-down signals from higher areas of attentional control. If those signals enabled presynaptic circuits to selectively entrain postsynaptic neurons, this would be a mechanism for selective routing in accordance with the Communication-th