Topic: striatum and thalamus

Spontaneous neural fluctuations and traveling waves are often observed in large scale population activity in diverse brain areas and in various brain states (Lubenov et al. 2009; Muller et al. 2016; Hamid et al. 2021). Spatiotemporal dynamics of neural activity, including traveling waves, likely implement diverse computations, including motor planning, decision making, and memory consolidation (Ermentrout & Kleinfeld 2001; Muller et al 2018). However, the detailed spatiotemporal patterns of wave propagation have not been well characterized in awake mammals. Critically, it is still largely