About Pascal Fries
Research Group Leader
Born 1972. Study of medicine at the University of Saarland (1991-1993) and at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University in Frankfurt (1993 – 1998). Doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University in Frankfurt (1993 – 1999). Postdoc in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA (1999 – 2001). Principal Investigator at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (2001-2009). Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society at the MPI for Biological Intelligence and research group leader at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics.
Key Publications
Fries P. Rhythms for Cognition: Communication through Coherence. Neuron 88: 220-235, 2015.
Fries P. Rhythmic attentional scanning. Neuron 111: 954-970, 2023.
Bosman CA, Schoffelen JM, Brunet N, Oostenveld R, Bastos AM, Womelsdorf T, Rubehn B, Stieglitz T, De Weerd P, and Fries P. Attentional stimulus selection through selective synchronization between monkey visual areas. Neuron 75: 875-888, 2012.
Womelsdorf T, Fries P, Mitra PP, and Desimone R. Gamma-band synchronization in visual cortex predicts speed of change detection. Nature 439: 733-736, 2006.
Fries P, Reynolds JH, Rorie AE, and Desimone R. Modulation of oscillatory neuronal synchronization by selective visual attention. Science 291: 1560-1563, 2001.
Rohenkohl G, Bosman CA, and Fries P. Gamma Synchronization between V1 and V4 Improves Behavioral Performance. Neuron 100: 953-963 e953, 2018.
Fries P. A mechanism for cognitive dynamics: neuronal communication through neuronal coherence. Trends in cognitive sciences 9: 474-480, 2005.
Bastos AM, Vezoli J, Bosman CA, Schoffelen JM, Oostenveld R, Dowdall JR, De Weerd P, Kennedy H, and Fries P. Visual areas exert feedforward and feedback influences through distinct frequency channels. Neuron 85: 390-401, 2015.
Michalareas G, Vezoli J, van Pelt S, Schoffelen JM, Kennedy H, and Fries P. Alpha-Beta and Gamma Rhythms Subserve Feedback and Feedforward Influences among Human Visual Cortical Areas. Neuron 89: 384-397, 2016.
Vezoli J, Vinck M, Bosman CA, Bastos AM, Lewis CM, Kennedy H, and Fries P. Brain rhythms define distinct interaction networks with differential dependence on anatomy. Neuron 109: 3862-3878 e3865, 2021.
Bastos AM, Usrey WM, Adams RA, Mangun GR, Fries P, and Friston KJ. Canonical microcircuits for predictive coding. Neuron 76: 695-711, 2012.
Engel AK, and Fries P. Beta-band oscillations--signalling the status quo? Current opinion in neurobiology 20: 156-165, 2010.
Schoffelen JM, Oostenveld R, and Fries P. Neuronal coherence as a mechanism of effective corticospinal interaction. Science 308: 111-113, 2005.