Awake cortex stabilizes traveling waves for global and reliable information routing.
iScience August 21, 2026 Kaio Misawa, Koji Chinen, Akira Kawabata et al.
How does the brain organize neural information for perception during wakefulness, yet lose such organization under anesthesia? Theories on consciousness hypothesize that perceptual experience arises from global communication across the cerebral cortex. However, the neural substrate that mediates information transfer between cortical regions remains uncertain. Here, developing large-scale and...