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Record W4414770035 · doi:10.1101/2025.10.01.679820

Modular Organization of Electrical Fluctuations in the Mouse Brain

2025· preprint· en· W4414770035 on OpenAlexafffund
Xingyun Wang, Jean-Claude Béı̈que, Richard Naud

Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNeuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsModularity (biology)Superior colliculusLocal field potentialThalamusModular designCortex (anatomy)Visual cortexSomatosensory systemAuditory cortexAssociative property

Abstract

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Abstract A powerful computational feature of the brain is its ability to compartmentalize different functions in a way that can be flexibly recombined. Experimental evidence for such modularity arose from cytoarchitecture, connectivity, and electroencephalograms, while magnetic resonance imaging could attest that this modularity is dynamic. More spatially precise and more widely recordable, the local field potential (LFP) has an unknown brain wide organization. Here, we developed deep electrospectroscopy, a method to assess nonlinear spectral similarity between the LFP of different areas. A brain-wide application of this technique to the mouse brain revealed an organization composed of groups of spectrally similar areas. Such communities were mostly found in the fore-brain and showed an organization that did not strictly follow the cytoarchitecture. For instance, visual parts of the cortex and the visual parts of the colliculus were found in the same community. These electrospectral communities reshaped with context, showing splitting and merging operations, growing in size around brain areas required for a task. In particular, upper and lower limb parts of the somatosensory cortex were primarily in separate communities but merged during a task that required turning a wheel. Similarly, oculomotor reflexes and associative parts of the thalamus merged during the visuo-motor task. These analyzes show that LFPs are organized in a modular fashion, offering a window onto subcortical and layer-specific contributions to the compositionality of cortical brain functions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.002

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.260 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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