GoKawiilStudy finds brain 'traveling waves' more complex than simple oscillations
Researchers led by Joshua Jacobs and Anup Das, published in Nature Communications in April 2026, measured electrical waves of neural activity in the brain and found varied patterns including source waves, sink waves, and spiral vortex-like waves. The team reported that different behavioral tasks were linked to distinct types of these wave patterns, rather than a single uniform oscillation.