Topic: inter-areal phase synchronization

Neural information processing in dynamic, natural environments requires the brain to flexibly allocate limited computational resources to varying task demands. One example is selective attention in the visual system, which allows to preferentially route signals from behaviourally relevant stimuli to downstream visual areas, while suppressing irrelevant visual information. It is an open question which neural mechanisms realize selective routing, and how this process is controlled. Here we propose that spontaneous synchronization in recurrent networks is the key mechanism for selective processin