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Burst-related potentials as a temporal anchor for cognition

  • Marie C. Schuma
  • Ayelet N. Landau
  • Ilka Diester
  • Michael Anderson
  • Golan Kavrat
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Abstract

Traditional approaches probe cognition by aligning brain activity to external stimuli, yet many cognitive processes are not time-locked to such events. Building on evidence that band-limited neural activity often occurs as transient bursts, we articulate the burst-related potentials (BRP) as a unifying terminology for an emerging family of analyses obtained by aligning unfiltered time-domain waveforms to frequency-domain landmarks. We outline practical considerations and caveats for computing BRPs, distinguish descriptive alignment from mechanistic inference, and set out how burst-locked analyses can complement stimulus-locked ones in the study of internally generated cognition.

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@misc{schuma2026burstrelated,
  title = {{Burst-related potentials as a temporal anchor for cognition}},
  author = {Marie C. Schuma and Ayelet N. Landau and Ilka Diester and Michael Anderson and Golan Kavrat},
  howpublished = {PsyArXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.31234/osf.io/dpcwy_v3},
  url = {https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/dpcwy_v3/},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - UNPB
TI  - Burst-related potentials as a temporal anchor for cognition
AU  - Marie C. Schuma
AU  - Ayelet N. Landau
AU  - Ilka Diester
AU  - Michael Anderson
AU  - Golan Kavrat
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/23
PB  - PsyArXiv
DO  - 10.31234/osf.io/dpcwy_v3
UR  - https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/dpcwy_v3/
AB  - Traditional approaches probe cognition by aligning brain activity to external stimuli, yet many cognitive processes are not time-locked to such events. Building on evidence that band-limited neural activity often occurs as transient bursts, we articulate the burst-related potentials (BRP) as a unifying terminology for an emerging family of analyses obtained by aligning unfiltered time-domain waveforms to frequency-domain landmarks. We outline practical considerations and caveats for computing BRPs, distinguish descriptive alignment from mechanistic inference, and set out how burst-locked analyses can complement stimulus-locked ones in the study of internally generated cognition.
ER  -