The neural activity of auditory conscious perception.

Although recent work has made headway in understanding the neural temporospatial dynamics of conscious perception, much of that work has focused on visual paradigms. To determine whether there are shared mechanisms for perceptual consciousness across sensory modalities, here we test within the auditory domain. Participants completed an auditory threshold task while undergoing intracranial electroencephalography.

Traditionally produced tempeh harbors more diverse bacteria with more putative health-promoting properties than industrially produced tempeh.

In recent years, there has been a significant shift towards industrialization in food production, resulting in the implementation of higher hygiene standards globally. Our study focused on examining the impact of hygiene standards on tempeh, a popular Rhizopus-based fermented soybean product native to Indonesia, and now famous around the world. We observed that tempeh produced with standardized hygiene measures exhibited a microbiome with comparable bacterial abundances but a markedly different community structure and function than traditionally produced tempeh.

The terroir of Tempeh: Strong region-specific signatures in the bacterial community structures across Indonesia.

Tempeh, a soybean product from Indonesia, is created through fermentation by spp. and associated bacteria. Here, we aim to get an overview of the variability of the tempeh microbiota across Indonesia and disentangle influencing factors.

Intrinsic dynamic shapes responses to external stimulation in the human brain.

Sensory stimulation of the brain reverberates in its recurrent neuronal networks. However, current computational models of brain activity do not separate immediate sensory responses from intrinsic recurrent dynamics. We apply a vector-autoregressive model with external input (VARX), combining the concepts of "functional connectivity" and "encoding models", to intracranial recordings in humans.

Motifs of human hippocampal and cortical high frequency oscillations structure processing and memory of naturalistic stimuli.

The discrete events of our narrative experience are organized by the neural substrate that underlies episodic memory. This narrative process is segmented into discrete units by event boundaries. This permits a replay process that acts to consolidate each event into a narrative memory.