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WaveSpace: analysis and simulation of cortical traveling waves

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Oscillatory cortical activity has been found to systematically propagate across space as traveling waves (Muller et al., 2018).Growing evidence links those spatiotemporal patterns to cognitive functions including, but not limited to visual spatial attention (Fakche & Dugué, 2024), memory (Mohan et al., 2024) and consciousness (Bhattacharya et al., 2022).Detecting and characterizing traveling waves in non-invasive multichannel recordings of brain activity requires multiple processing and analysis steps, some of which are interchangeable while others can lead to diverging interpretations of the same data.WaveSpace is a modular Python toolbox for the simulation and analysis of traveling wave dynamics in multichannel recording arrays.Based on a single, flexible data class users can execute, compare and recombine multiple commonly used analysis steps as well as evaluate their performance against simulated benchmarks.

Source: The Journal of Open Source Software

DOI: 10.21105/joss.10695

Authors: Kirsten Petras, Dennis Croonenberg, Laura Dugué

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris Cité, Centre Neurosciences intégratives et Cognition, Institut Universitaire de France

Language: English

Topic: Neural dynamics and brain function

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: European Commission

Award: G1448911962