Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Natural rhythms of periodic temporal attention

  • Arnaud Zalta,
  • Spase Petkoski,
  • Benjamin Morillon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14888-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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That attention is a rhythmic process has received abundant evidence. Here, the authors reveal the natural sampling rate of auditory and visual periodic temporal attention. Both are antagonistically modulated by overt motor activity, a result generalised in a dynamical model of coupled oscillators.