Oscillation or not—Why we can and need to know (commentary on Doelling and Assaneo, 2021)

40-Hz Auditory Steady-State Responses in Schizophrenia: Toward a Mechanistic Biomarker for Circuit Dysfunctions and Early Detection and Diagnosis

“…In this context, it is important to highlight that neural oscillations reflect synchronous, rhythmic activity of neuronal ensembles that occur in a circumscribed frequency range and is sustained over several cycles (27). Accordingly, neural oscillations need to be distinguished from broadband power changes, transient responses, and aperiodic activity (28), and recent methods have been introduced to separate these processes (29).…”

Neural tracking of continuous acoustics: properties, speech‐specificity and open questions

“…In this review, we focus on neural dynamics, temporal patterns of neural activity that seem optimised to process human speech. Neural oscillations are a distinct class of neural dynamics (Buzsáki & Draguhn, 2004; van Bree et al, 2022; Wang, 2010) and possess certain properties that might underlie a specialisation to process speech.…”

“…The observation of a visually‐induced reset of auditory delta–theta oscillations (Biau et al, 2021) is in line with this assumption. Together, those properties that reveal a close match between neural dynamics and human speech can also been found in neural oscillations (eigenfrequency, constrained flexibility, temporal expectation, cross‐modality). Some of these properties are unique to, others characteristic for neural oscillations (van Bree et al, 2022). This supports the notion of neural oscillations being involved in the generation of the observed speech‐constrained neural dynamics.…”