TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kienitz, Ricardo
A1  - Schmid, Michael Christoph
A1  - Dugué, Laura
T1  - Rhythmic sampling revisited: Experimental paradigms and neural mechanisms
T2  - European journal of neuroscience
N2  - Sampling of information is thought to be an important aspect of explorative behaviour. Evidence for it has been gained in behavioural assessments of a variety of overt and covert cognitive domains, including sensation, attention, memory, eye movements and dexterity. A common aspect across many findings is that sampling tends to exhibit a rhythmicity at low frequencies (theta, 4–8 Hz; alpha, 9–12 Hz). Neurophysiological investigations in a wide range of species, including rodents, non-human primates and humans have demonstrated the presence of sampling related neural oscillations in a number of brain areas ranging from early sensory cortex, hippocampus to high-level cognitive areas. However, to assess whether rhythmic sampling represents a general aspect of exploratory behaviour one must critically evaluate the task parameters, and their potential link with neural oscillations. Here we focus on sampling during attentive vision to present an overview on the experimental conditions that are used to investigate rhythmic sampling and associated oscillatory brain activity in this domain. This review aims to (1) provide guidelines to efficiently quantify behavioural rhythms, (2) compare results from human and non-human primate studies and (3) argue that the underlying neural mechanisms of sampling can co-occur in both sensory and high-level areas.
KW  - attention
KW  - behavioural rhythms
KW  - neural oscillations
KW  - perception
KW  - sampling
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/75022
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-750223
SN  - 1460-9568
N1  - This project has received funding from the H2020 European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreements No 637638 - Michael C. Schmid; No 852139 - Laura Dugué), and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) - Deutsche Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) programme (grant agreement No J18P08ANR00 - Laura Dugué).
VL  - 55
IS  - 11-12
SP  - 3010
EP  - 3024
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Oxford [u.a.]
ER  -