Neural signal patterns can change when the electrodes move even slightly; a neuron whose signal was not previously detected can end up joining the recorded ensemble while another might become excluded.
Those neural signaling patterns, in Pitkow and Angelaki's description, are then recoded into another set of patterns; that process sorts out the important variables in the environment from those that don't matter.
In an earlier study, Dyer discovered that hand motion directions corresponded with reliable
neural signaling patterns in the brain's motor neocortex.
Not exact matches
The analysis allowed the researchers to identify and isolate the specific
patterns of
neural activity that play out in this part of the brain when someone speaks, effectively enabling them to decode the brain's
signals.
Brain
Signal For Awareness: Minimally conscious and vegetative patients show different
patterns of
neural activity.
In contrast, the Stanford team's
neural structures not only self - assembled as cortexlike tissue, the neurons also sent
signals to one another in coordinated
patterns — just as they would in a brain.
Because of the changes in
neural signals over time, the resting firing
patterns of neurons in the motor cortex might have changed since the last pause.
Theta waves generate the theta rhythm, a
neural oscillatory
pattern in electroencephalography (EEG)
signals, recorded either from inside the brain or from electrodes glued to the scalp.
The precise timing of
neural signals appears to be crucial in controlling the elaborate vocal
patterns that have fascinated human listeners for centuries (bottom, excerpt from Olivier Messaien's Oiseaux exotiques, which was based on Messaien's transcriptions of birdsong).
MEG
signals, collected while participants viewed single objects, were source - localised and RSA was used to test how object information is represented by dynamically changing
patterns of
neural oscillations.