The omitted first half of the sentence—“using a rare opportunity to directly record from the human thalamus…”—already highlights a key difference, among others.
Contrary to claims made here & elsewhere, we do mention Snipes (2025) in our paper, alongside other relevant reports of cortical activity.
Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans
dlvr.it
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02446-zChowdhury et al. report the discovery of a 19–45-Hz thalamic oscillation that is present during human wakefulness and REM sleep, but not NREM sleep.
For those interested in evaluating the strength of the claims made in some of these posts relative to the data they cite, here is the relevant statement from Snipes (2025):
“...iota was detected in 2 of 17 wake recordings.”
That is, 2 out of 17 participants.
Nature Human Behaviour
Tobias Staudigl
"hitherto-unreported brain-state-specific oscillation of approximately 19–45 Hz"???
Sophia Snipes published a paper on very similar findings in scalp EEG:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
The authors of the NHB paper were made aware of these findings! Quite disappointing...
