The ability to decode an individual's intentions in real time has long been a 'holy grail' of research on human volition. For example, a reliable method could be used to improve scientific study of voluntary action by allowing external probe stimuli to be delivered at different moments during development of intention and action. Several Brain Computer Interface applications have used motor imag...

Characteristic timescales extracted from the literature for exponentially growing E. coli and HeLa cells at 37°C (see BioNumbers database). Numerical values should only serve as “rule of thumb” values. For example, the half-life of metabolites (turnover time of the metabolite pool) spans over 3 orders of magnitude. Some processes are shown only in one of the cell types yet are relevant to both....

The investigation of distributed coding across multiple neurons in the cortex remains to this date a challenge. Our current understanding of collective encoding of information and the relevant timescales is still limited. Most results are restricted to disparate timescales, focused on either very fast, e.g., spike-synchrony, or slow timescales, e.g., firing rate. Here, we investigated systemati...

The dynamics of real-world systems often involve multiple processes that influence system state. The timescales that these processes operate on may be separated by orders of magnitude or may coincide closely. Where timescales are not separable, the way that they relate to each other will be important for understanding system dynamics. In this paper, we present a short overview of how modellers ...