This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (statedependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level.

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...

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Stephen Fleming, Ph.D., is a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London. He is a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology and ...