Integrated information theory: from consciousness to its physical substrate

By Giulio Tononi, Melanie Boly, Marcello Massimini, Christof Koch. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016

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Conscious Processing and the Global Neuronal Workspace Hypothesis (2020, methodology): “In Table 1, we summarize the main similarities and differences (for recent descriptions of those theories, see Brown et al., 2019; Lamme, 2018; Tononi et al., 2016).”
Capturing the spatiotemporal dynamics of self-generated, task-initiated thoughts with EEG and fMRI (2019, neutral): “The subjective experience of perceiving a scene, recognizing a face, hearing a sound or reflecting on the experience itself presents a complex interplay between memory, attention and consciousness (Corbetta and Shulman, 2011; Tononi et al., 2016).”
The neural activity of auditory conscious perception (2025, unknown): “…that conscious perception is marked by activity in arousal and attention networks (Del Cul et al., 2007; Herman et al., 2019; Kronemer et al., 2022; Tononi et al., 2016) and wide-spread activity that propagates from early sensory regions to higher order association regions of the cortex, as well…”
Intracranial neural representation of phenomenal and access consciousness in the human brain (2024, background): “…global neuronal workspace theory (GNWT) 1 and high-order theory (HOT) (Brown et al., 2019), and does not support other theories that deny the importance of PFC in p-consciousness, such as recurrent processing theory (RPT) (Lamme, 2018) and integrated information theory (IIT) (Tononi et al., 2016).”
Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans (2025, unknown): “Convergent empirical evidence and theoretical principles suggest that the preservation of these recurrent, complex dynamics is a necessary condition for consciousness [134,135] providing mechanistic support to the association between slow waves and the lack of dream reports.”
Hierarchical consciousness: the Nested Observer Windows model (2024, background): “Thus, consciousness in IIT is not defined by the emergence of an observer window via synchrony, but instead every network of interconnected neurons will possess some degree of consciousness that scales with the degree of interconnectedness.”