Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
May 14, 2026
Georg Northoff, Yasir Çatal, Samira Abbasi
Computing can take advantage of physics-that is, 'whatever physics offers' (Jaeger et al. 2023 Nat. Commun. 14, 4911 (doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40533-1)). One of the key features physics provides is time: it describes rules and makes predictions about how activity patterns change over time, as governed by dynamics. We argue that computing can learn from physics in how it conceives time-namely, in...
Computers in biology and medicine
October 1, 2025
Andrea Buccellato, Di Zang, Yasir Çatal et al.
The brain displays intrinsic durations in its own spontaneous activity - Intrinsic Neural Timescales (INTs). INTs are hierarchically organized, with shorter durations within unimodal regions and longer intervals in multimodal domains. Despite significant progress, it's currently not known whether the unimodal-multimodal hierarchical organization undergoes recurrent changes itself - consistent...
Neuroimage
August 15, 2024
Bianca Ventura, Yasir Çatal, Angelika Wolman et al.
22 citations
Meditation encompasses a range of practices employing diverse induction techniques, each characterized by a distinct attentional focus. In Mantra meditation, for instance, practitioners direct their attention narrowly to a given sentence that is recursively repeated, while other forms of meditation such as Shoonya meditation are induced by a wider attentional focus. Here we aimed to identify...
Brain Communications
2024
Yasir Çatal, Georg Northoff
3 citations
This scientific commentary refers to ‘Brain dynamics predictive of response to psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression’, by Vohryzek et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcae049)
Communications Biology
May 9, 2023
Philipp Klar, Yasir Çatal, Robert Langner et al.
35 citations
Scale-free physiological processes are ubiquitous in the human organism. Resting-state functional MRI studies observed the loss of scale-free dynamics under anesthesia. In contrast, the modulation of scale-free dynamics during task-related activity remains an open question. We investigate scale-free dynamics in the cerebral cortex's unimodal periphery and transmodal core topography in rest and...