Electroencephalographic field influence on calcium momentum waves

Abstract: Macroscopic EEG fields can be an explicit top-down neocortical mechanism that directly drives bottom-up processes that describe memory, attention, and other neuronal processes. The top-down mechanism considered are macrocolumnar EEG firings in neocortex, as described by a statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions (SMNI), developed as a magnetic vector potential

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. The bottom-up process considered are

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waves prominent in synaptic and extracellular processes that are considered to greatly influence neuronal firings. Here, the complimentary effects are considered, i.e., the influence of

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on

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momentum,

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. The canonical momentum of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field,

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(SI units), is calculated, where the charge of

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is

q = - 2 e

,

e

is the magnitude of the charge of an electron. Calculations demonstrate that macroscopic EEG

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can be quite influential on the momentum

m a t h b f p

of

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ions, in both classical and quantum mechanics. Molecular scales of

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wave dynamics are coupled with

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fields developed at macroscopic regional scales measured by coherent neuronal firing activity measured by scalp EEG. The project has three main aspects: fitting

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models to EEG data as reported here, building tripartite models to develop

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models, and studying long coherence times of

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waves in the presence of

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due to coherent neuronal firings measured by scalp EEG. The SMNI model supports a mechanism wherein the

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interaction at tripartite synapses, via a dynamic centering mechanism (DCM) to control background synaptic activity, acts to maintain short-term memory (STM) during states of selective attention.

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