MEG studies of rhythms in body and brain

Invasive and noninvasive studies in humans under physiological and pathological conditions converged on the
suggestion that brain rhythms are related to cognitive processes such as sensory representations, attentional
selection, and dynamical routing/gating of information. Interestingly, rhythms are also evident outside the brain.
A prominent examples is respiration. I will present recent studies that aim to further our understanding of the
link between body and brain rhythms. I will start by describing recently discovered gradients in oscillatory
frequency across the brain and then continue to show how brain oscillations are linked to peripheral signals
such as respiration and pupil dilation. Together, these studies emphasize the importance of considering the body
when studying the brain.