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June 30, 2015
Micheli et al find that during sustained attention, successful near-threshold visual detection is predicted by increased phase synchrony between the frontal and temporal/parietal cortex. They suggest that beta coherent states in the prefrontal cortex regulate top-down expectancy and coupling with posterior cortex facilitates the gating of that information.
Evidence for the role of beta in top-down selection continues to mount.
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