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Brain activity abounds with rhythmic patterns (Capilla et al., 2021; Groppe et al., 2013; Keitel & Gross, 2016) that reflect ongoing fluctuations of neuronal excitability (Adrian & Matthews, 1934; Bishop, 1932). Linking brain rhythms and cognition through rhythmic sampling is particularly attractive because it allows using global mechanistic principles to bridge two different levels of explanation: normal brain function, which involves rhythmic activity, and human behaviour and experiences. In addition, it leaves open the possibility of actively intervening in the sampling process through external stimulation of brain rhythms, either to advance theory, for example, to close in on the causal role of brain rhythms for cognition and behaviour (see section "Can we manipulate brain rhythms to take control of cognition?") This makes closed-loop BCI experiments a rigorous benchmark for any assumed brain rhythm-behaviour link, with the added potential of drawing stronger conclusions as to the causal role of neural rhythms in cognition (also see Ramot & Martin, 2022). [Extracted from the article]