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▲ paimapi 2 hours ago

Bit of a sensationalist title - EEG/iEEG measurements have led to worthwhile clinical outcomes but also are an avenue for bunk pseudosccience so it pays to be careful whenever you see the words 'brain waves' paired with some large claim.

More accurate, much less sexy title: Intracranial Recordings Uncover Spiral and Concentric Brain Waves During Memory Tasks" (study completed only on small cohorts of epilepsy patients performing constrained memory tasks).

No inner workings revealed or laid bare, just another piece of evidence contributing to a small part of the debate in cortical electrophysiological studies on whether or not some data measures can be discarded as the downstream, messy noise of the neurons firing or actual, high-fidelity signals of activity

▲Animats an hour ago | parent | next [-]

And still all slow stuff, 4 to 12 Hz. There must be something in the brain that clocks faster, but nobody seems to have found it yet.

▲mr_toad 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Seems to be pretty much in line with human reaction times?

▲LoganDark an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I wouldn't be so sure that the brain necessarily clocks faster than that. I think it's more likely that faster chains of thought are defined by the flow of the wave rather than its frequency.

▲plastic-enjoyer 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

>also are an avenue for bunk pseudosccience so it pays to be careful whenever you see the words 'brain waves' paired with some large claim.

What makes you make such an accusation?

▲Scrapemist 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

His brain waves

▲paimapi 4 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

this was the first web search result for brain wave pseudoscience:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/brain-wave-pseudoscience/