Traveling waves and neuronal spiking

i have posted blogs that address traveling waves. i came across an article that is quite current, appearing in 2021 and entitled “low frequency traveling waves in the human cortex coordinate neural activity across spatial scales.” Vishnu sreekumar and coauthors are associated with the NIh.

the authors stated that there was no direct link established between traveling waves and neuronal spiking in humans. their studies “found that macro-scale waves co-occurred with micro-scale waves, which in turn were temporally locked to single unit spiking. this temporal coordination between traveling waves at different spatial scales and between waves and neuronal spiking in the human brain suggests a role for traveling waves in neural communication. . . . traveling waves may also play an active role in information processing by influencing the probability of neuronal firing. . . . traveling waves propagating across brain regions could provide a mechanistic account for how such communication and coordination of neuronal activity could arise.” the authors “examined traveling waves while participants were attentive and repeatedly engaged in the same behavior in order to explore the potential role of traveling waves in human cognition.”

i reference this article since it shows how neuroscientists are coming closer to understanding if (and how) cognition itself generates waveforms that transmit specified information through synchronous, coherent synaptic networks to bring about selected actions. this information would open the door to accepting how the holy spirit communes with us in our time.

Stan Lennard