In their study, Miller and Buschman argue that these brainwaves (or, as they call them, oscillatory brain rhythms) are the key to the communication between the neurons in our brain and our core experience of thinking. They suggest that our brain ‘regulates the flow of neural traffic via rhythmic synchrony between neurons’, meaning that when we have a thought it is because a selection of neurons (which they refer to as an ensemble) are all firing at the same wavelength.
