Summer School “The Role of Neural Oscillations in Human Cognition”

Goettingen, DE

Attendance type(s): In Person

Event Dates: 14—17 Aug 2017

Goettingen Summer School “The Role of Neural Oscillations in Human Cognition”

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Oscillations are inherent feature of neuronal networks. The potential functional roles of oscillations are diverse, but contentious. Brain oscillations have been associated with perceptual, motor and cognitive processes including perceptual binding, attention, and memory. They appear in the brain in various frequency bands, which may occur simultaneously and interact with one another. The multilevel organization of brain oscillations integrates functional brain systems across multiple spatiotemporal scales, and thus implies a sophisticated solution for the highly precise temporal coordination between the fast local neuronal computations with external input and the global system state. Malfunction of the dynamics underlying oscillations and synchronization are used to explain dynamical pathological conditions such as epilepsy, schizophrenia and Parkinson disease. Further research into understanding network dynamics should provide essential information about how brain functions emerge from the intricate interactions between local and global dynamics. Although it is widely accepted that the precise coordination of different oscillatory activities plays an important role in brain functions, many aspects of the fundamental underlying mechanisms remain unknown. The main topic of the summer school is the new developments in neurophysiology and neuroscience to study the brain’s ability to generate and maintain neuronal oscillations and the possibility to modulate them with the non-invasive brain stimulation.

Contact Details

Email: aantal@gwdg.de