Language rhythms as assimilated rhythms in the nervous system

Multiple Rhythms and Switches in the Nervous System

Networks of neurons in the nervous system can produce a variety of temporal patterns of different frequency; the same network can produce different rhythms at different times, or several rhythms at one time. We focus here on the gamma (30-90 Hz) and theta (4-12 Hz) rhythms produced in the hippocampus, a part of the nervous system critical for learning and recall. We discuss experiments and mode...

Rhythms of the nervous system: mathematical themes and variations

The nervous system displays a variety of rhythms in both waking and sleep. These rhythms have been closely associated with different behavioral and cognitive states, but it is still unknown how the nervous system makes use of these rhythms to perform functionally important tasks. To address those questions, it is first useful to understood in a mechanistic way the origin of the rhythms, their i...

Rhythms as emerging structures

Circadian rhythms in the Limulus visual system.

A circadian clock in the Limulus brain generates efferent optic nerve activity at night. The endogenous activity begins near dusk, continues during the night, and stops near dawn. Approximately 10 to 20 efferent fibers in each lateral optic nerve trunk fire in close synchrony with one another and with the efferent fibers in the opposite nerve trunk producing bursts of nerve impulses at night. T...

Lateralized rhythms of the central and autonomic nervous systems.

This paper reviews lateralized ultradian rhythms in the nervous system and their unique place in evolutionary development. The rhythmic lateralization of neural activity in paired internal structures and the two sides of the central and autonomic nervous system is discussed as a new view for the temporal and spatial organization of higher vertebrates. These lateralized neural rhythms are integr...