TY - JOUR T1 - Spontaneous Brain Oscillations Induce Neuronal Excitability Changes That Affect Subjective Perception, Rather Than Decision-Making Strategy JF - eneuro JO - eNeuro DO - 10.1523/ENEURO.0194-18.2018 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - ENEURO.0194-18.2018 AU - Rosalind S. E. Carney Y1 - 2018/05/01 UR - http://www.eneuro.org/content/5/3/ENEURO.0194-18.2018.abstract N2 - Highlighted Research Paper: Moment-to-Moment Fluctuations in Neuronal Excitability Bias Subjective Perception Rather than Strategic Decision-Making, by Luca Iemi and Niko A. BuschSpontaneous alpha-band oscillations represent ongoing fluctuations in neuronal excitability, with periods of strong oscillations indicating neuronal inhibition (Watson et al., 2018). Visual detection studies have indicated that heightened neuronal excitability (weak alpha-band oscillations) biases subjects to report seeing a target stimulus even when no stimulus had been presented (Limbach and Corballis, 2016; Iemi et al., 2017). In their eNeuro publication, Iemi and Busch (2018) focus on the nature of this bias: is it due to a deliberate preference to report this perception (decision bias), or is it due to a genuine subjective, albeit incorrect, perception of seeing something … ER -