Are different rhythms good for different functions?
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2010
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Kopell, Nancy
Kramer, Mark A.
Malerba, Paola
Whittington, Miles A.
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Kopell N, Kramer MA, Malerba P and Whittington M (2010) Are different rhythms good for different functions? Front. Hum. Neurosci. 4:187. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00187
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This essay discusses the relationship between the physiology of rhythms and potential functional roles. We focus on how the biophysics underlying different rhythms can give rise to different abilities of a network to form and manipulate cell assemblies. We also discuss how changes in the modulatory setting of the rhythms can change the flow of information through cortical circuits, again tying physiology to computation. We suggest that diverse rhythms, or variations of a rhythm, can support different components of a cognitive act, with multiple rhythms potentially playing multiple roles.
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Copyright: © 2010 Kopell, Kramer, Malerba and Whittington. This is an open-access article subject to an exclusive license agreement between the authors and the Frontiers Research Foundation, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.