Neuroscience: A Mechanism for Rhythmic Sampling in Vision

Ongoing perception ebbs and flows rhythmically. Understanding the source and scope of this phenomenon is an important step in unraveling the foundations of sensory processing. A new study demonstrates that local neuronal interactions generate rhythmic brain activity and correspond to rhythmic performance patterns on a visual-detection task. Ongoing perception ebbs and flows rhythmically. Understanding the source and scope of this phenomenon is an important step in unraveling the foundations of sensory processing. A new study demonstrates that local neuronal interactions generate rhythmic brain activity and correspond to rhythmic performance patterns on a visual-detection task.