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Transduction of the Geomagnetic Field as Evidenced from alpha-Band Activity in the Human Brain

Connie X. Wang, Isaac A. Hilburn, Daw-An Wu, Yuki Mizuhara, Christopher P. Cousté, Jacob N. H. Abrahams, Sam E. Bernstein, Ayumu Matani, Shinsuke Shimojo and Joseph L. Kirschvink
eNeuro 18 March 2019, 6 (2) ENEURO.0483-18.2019; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0483-18.2019
Connie X. Wang
1Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
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Isaac A. Hilburn
2Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
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Daw-An Wu
1Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
3Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
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Yuki Mizuhara
4Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
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Christopher P. Cousté
2Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
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Jacob N. H. Abrahams
2Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
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Sam E. Bernstein
5Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
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Ayumu Matani
4Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
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Shinsuke Shimojo
1Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
3Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
6Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
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Joseph L. Kirschvink
2Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
7Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0483-18.2019
PubMed 
31028046
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History 
  • Received December 6, 2018
  • Revision received February 15, 2019
  • Accepted February 26, 2019
  • Published online March 18, 2019.
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Copyright © 2019 Wang et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

Author Information

  1. Connie X. Wang1,
  2. Isaac A. Hilburn2,
  3. Daw-An Wu1,3,
  4. Yuki Mizuhara4,
  5. Christopher P. Cousté2,
  6. Jacob N. H. Abrahams2,
  7. Sam E. Bernstein5,
  8. Ayumu Matani4,
  9. Shinsuke Shimojo1,3,6 and
  10. Joseph L. Kirschvink2,7
  1. 1Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
  2. 2Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
  3. 3Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
  4. 4Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
  5. 5Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
  6. 6Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
  7. 7Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Shin Shimojo at hmre.contact{at}caltech.edu or Joseph L. Kirschvink at pmag.contact{at}caltech.edu
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: J.L.K. initiated, and with S.S. and A.M., planned and directed the research. C.X.W., I.A.H., D.-A.W., Y.M., C.P.C., J.N.H.A., S.E.B., A.M., S.S., and J.L.K. designed research; C.X.W., I.A.H., D.-A.W., Y.M., C.P.C., J.N.H.A., A.M., S.S., and J.L.K. performed research; C.X.W., I.A.H., D.-A.W., A.M., S.S., and J.L.K. analyzed data; C.X.W., I.A.H., D.-A.W., Y.M., C.P.C., J.N.H.A., S.E.B., A.M., S.S., and J.L.K. wrote the paper.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the Human Frontiers Science Program Grant HFSP-RGP0054/2014 (to S.S., J.L.K. and A.M.), and more recent analysis of data was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) RadioBio Program Grant D17AC00019 (to J.L.K. and S.S.) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grant 18H03500 (to A.M.). Previous support to J.L.K. from the Fetzer institute allowed construction of an earlier version of the 2-m Merritt coil system. C.X.W. and S.S. have been partly supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (JST.CREST).

  • All digital data are available at https://doi.org/10.22002/d1.930 and https://doi.org/10.22002/d1.931, including MATLAB scripts used for the automatic data analysis.

Funding

  • Defense Sciences Office, DARPA (DSO, DARPA)

    D17AC0001
  • Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

    RGP0054/2014
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

    18H03500

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