Conference Agenda

Cerebral Characterization of Sensory Gating in Disconnected Dreaming States During Propofol Sedation Using fMRI

Benedetta Cecconi¹, Sepehr Mortaheb², Mohamed Ali Bahri³, Naji Alnagger^4,5, Fatemeh Seyfzadeh^4,5, Javier Montupil^6,7, Melanie Boly¹, Steven Laureys^4,5,8,9, Olivia Gosseries^4,5, Vincent Bonhomme^7,10, Jitka Annen^4,5

1: Center for Sleep and Consciousness, Department of Psychiatry, University of Madison-Wisconsin, Madison, USA; 2: Lab for Equilibrium Investigations and Aerospace (LEIA), University of Antwerp, Belgium; 3: GIGA-CRC, In vivo Imaging - Aging & Memory, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 4: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 5: NeuroRehab & Consciousness Clinic, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 6: University Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Régional de la Citadelle (CHR Citadelle), Liège, Belgium; 7: Anesthesia and Perioperative Neuroscience Laboratory, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 8: Cervo Brain Research Centre, University Institute in Mental Health of Quebec, Québec, QC, Canada; 9: Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China; 10: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Liège University Hospital, Liège, Belgium

Connectome Harmonic Decomposition Tracks the Presence of Disconnected Consciousness during Ketamine-Induced Unresponsiveness

Milan Van Maldegem¹, Jakub Vohryzek^2,3, Selen Atasoy^3,4, Naji Alnagger⁵, Paolo Cardone⁵, Vincent Bonhomme⁵, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse⁵, Athena Demertzi⁵, Oceane Jaquet⁵, Mohamed Ali Bahri⁵, Pablo Nunez⁵, Morten L. Kringelbach^3,4, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis¹, Andrea I. Luppi^1,3

1: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; 3: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 4: Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 5: University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

Increased Intra-brainstem Connectivity Is Associated With Anaesthetic Induced Loss Of Responsiveness

Stuart O'Connor¹, Dorca Szocs^1,2, David Lindsay^1,2, Mark Vivian¹, Vicky C Lupson³, Marta Correia⁴, Adrian Owen⁵, David K Menon¹, Ram Adapa¹, Emmanuel A Stamatakis^1,2

1: Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK; 2: Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK; 3: Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge, UK; 4: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK; 5: The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Noradrenergic Modulation of Consciousness: Differential Effects of Dexmedetomidine and Sleep Deprivation on Visuospatial Bias

Olympia Karampela^1,2,3, Aurelie Fontan^1,3, Lenita Lindgren⁴, Tiziana Pedale^1,3, Camilla Brorsson⁵, Fredrik Bergström⁶, Johan Eriksson^1,2,3

1: Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Sweden; 2: Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden; 3: Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden; 4: Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.; 5: Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden; 6: CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Paradoxical Effect Of Zolpidem Relies On Intact Striato-pallidal Complex In Patients With Disorders Of Consciousness

Elouan Bellec¹, Beaudoin-Gobert Maude¹, Riche Benjamin², Gobert Florent^1,3, Luauté Jacques^1,3

1: Lyon Neuroscience Center - University Claude Bernard Lyon 1; 2: Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Lyon; 3: Hospices Civils de Lyon

Disentangling Responsiveness and Consciousness in Propofol Anaesthesia using the Isolated Forearm Technique and Neuroimaging

Naji LN Alnagger^1,2, Javier Montupil^1,3,4,3,4, Paolo Cardone^1,2, Charlotte Martial^1,2, Coraline Mozin¹, Arthur Bonhomme⁴, Aline Defrense^3,4,5, Miegebielle Marie¹, Jitka Annen⁶, Olivia Gosseries^1,2, Vincent Bonhomme^3,4

1: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium; 2: NeuroRehab & Consciousness Clinic, Neurology Department, University Hospital of Liège; 3: Anesthesia and Perioperative Neuroscience Laboratory, GIGA-Neuroscience Thematic Unit, GIGA-Research, Liege University, Liege, Belgium; 4: University Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Citadelle Hospital, Liege, Belgium; 5: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Liege University Hospital, Liège, Belgium; 6: Department of Data Analysis, University of Ghent, B9000, Ghent, Belgium

An Evolutionarily Conserved Inhibitory Gradient Controls Anaesthetic-induced Disintegration of Information Across Human, Macaque, and Mouse Brains

Andrea Luppi^1,2, Lynn Uhrig^3,4, Jordy Tasserie^3,4, Pedro Mediano⁵, Fernando Rosas⁶, Daniel Gutierrez-Barragan⁷, Camilo Signorelli^3,4, Daniel Golkowski⁸, Andreas Ranft⁸, Rudiger Ilg⁸, Denis Jordan⁸, Parker Singleton⁹, Yohan Yee¹⁰, Alain Destexhe⁴, Rodrigo Cofre⁴, David Menon², Alessandro Gozzi⁷, Bechir Jarraya^3,4, Emmanuel Stamatakis²

1: University of Oxford; 2: University of Cambridge; 3: NeuroSpin Center; 4: Université Paris-Saclay; 5: Imperial College London; 6: University of Sussex; 7: Italian Institute of Technology; 8: Techinical Univeristy Munich; 9: Cornell University; 10: McGill University

DMT Reshapes Spontaneous Brain Activity

Victoria Joris¹, Andrea Luppi², Morten Kringelbach², Christopher Timmermann³

1: University of Geneva, Switzerland; 2: Univeristy of Oxford, United Kingdom; 3: Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Exploring LSD's Impact On Brain Structure-function Relationships Through MEG And Graph Signal Processing

Venkatesh Subramani^1,2, Annalisa Pascarella³, Yann Harel¹, Suresh Muthukumarasamy⁴, Giulia Lioi², Nicolas Farrugia², Karim Jerbi¹

1: Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; 2: IMT Atlantique, Brest, France; 3: Italian National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy; 4: University of Auckland

Setting, Set or Substance? Predictors of Self-alterations and Altered States of Consciousness During Ayahuasca Ceremonies

Rafael S. Rodrigues¹, Marcio Longo², Fernando Beserra¹, Bheatrix Bienemann¹, Lucas Cruz¹, Tiago Sanchez², Daniel C. Mograbi^1,3

1: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil; 2: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil; 3: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK

A Laminar Whole-brain Model of Serotonergic Psychedelics: Restoring Oscillatory Dynamics in Alzheimer’s Disease

Jan C Gendra^1,2,3, Edmundo Lopez-Sola^1,2, Francesca Castaldo¹, Èlia Lleal-Custey¹, Roser Sanchez-Todo¹, Jakub Vohryzek^2,4, Ricardo Salvador¹, Giulio Ruffini¹

1: Neuroelectrics Barcelona SLU, Spain; 2: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; 3: Technische Universität München, Germany; 4: University of Oxford, UK

Conscious Intention to Predict Modulates Neural Prediction Error Processing but not Visual Representations

Chen Frenkel, Leon Y. Deouell

the Hebrew Univerisy, Israel

Synergistic Broadband Dynamics Versus Redundant Gamma Oscillations During Visual Perception

Louis Roberts¹, Juho Aijala¹, Florian Burger¹, Cem Uran², Robin A.A. Ince³, Martin Vinck², Dora Hermes⁴, Andres Canales-Johnson^1,5,6

1: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.; 2: Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroinformatics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 3: Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; 4: Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, USA; 5: Neuroscience Center, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Finland; 6: Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Catolica del Maule, Talca, Chile.

Neurons in the Human Brain Encode Rapidly Learned Visual Information to Reshape Perception

Marcelo Armendariz^1,2, Julie Blumberg³, Jed Singer¹, Franz Aiple³, Jiye Kim¹, Peter Reinacher³, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage³, Gabriel Kreiman^1,2

1: Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA; 2: Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, MA, USA; 3: University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Neural Signatures of Blindsight: The Role of Motion Coherence, Confidence, and Subcortical-Cortical Connectivity

Vanessa Hadid^1,2,3, Annalisa Pascarella³, Dang Khoa Nguyen⁴, Karim Jerbi^2,3, Franco Lepore²

1: McGill University, Canada; 2: Psychology Department, Université de Montréal, Canada; 3: Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (CoCo Lab); 4: Neurology Service, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal

Visual Conscious Awareness and Neural Processing Are Linked to Eye Metrics in Cerebral Blindness

Sharif I. Kronemer¹, Victoria E. Gobo^1,2, Shruti Japee¹, Eli Merriam¹, Benjamin Osborne³, Peter A. Bandettini^1,4, Tina T. Liu^1,5

1: Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; 3: Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA; 4: Functional MRI Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; 5: Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

Characterising Pre-activation Of Expected Stimulus Representations In The Visual System

Morgan Kikkawa¹, Carla den Ouden¹, Maire Kashyap¹, Giuliano Ferla¹, Elizabeth Chang¹, Mia Nightingale¹, Jasmin Bruna Stariolo¹, Marta Garrido^1,2, Daniel Feuerriegel¹

1: Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Model Pluralism in Consciousness Research: A Data-Driven Map

Moritz Fabian Kriegleder¹, Maximilian Noichl²

1: University of Vienna, Austria; 2: Utrecht University, Netherlands

Cognitive Carrying Capacity: A Dennettian Approach to Self-Representation in Energy-Constrained Agents

Nikolaos Tzagkarakis¹, Keith Frankish²

1: The Open University, UK, United Kingdom; 2: University of Sheffield, Sheffield

How Does “Seeing” Become “Feeling”?

Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel^1,2

1: Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Université de Montréal, Canada; 2: Centre de Recherche de l'institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal

Prolegomena to Phenomenomics: Toward a Future Science of Experiential Observers

Robert Chis-Ciure¹, Ishan Singhal¹, Will Yun-Farmbrough¹, Luis Lips¹, Lionel Barnett¹, Anil K. Seth^1,2

1: Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, United Kingdom; 2: Program for Brain, and Consciousness, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, Canada

Advancing Task Ontologies For The Scientific Study Of Consciousness

Jolien C. Francken

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Defending Phenomenal Structuralism: An Error-theoretic Account of Phenomenal Intrinsicalism

Daniel Mario Weger

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Spontaneous Thought And Consciousness

Chair(s): Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)

Presentations of the Symposium

The Structure of a Drifting Mind: Revisiting Cognitive Control in Mind Wandering

Yizhi Li
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

State-of-Mind As The Puppeteer Of Mindwandering

Moshe Bar
Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv

What Can Spontaneous Thought Teach Us About Consciousness?

Kalina Christoff
University of British Columbia, Vancouver

How Can We Measure A Mind On The Move?

Jessica Andrews-Hanna
University of Arizona, Tucson

Intuitions about Consciousness

Chair(s): Clara Colombatto (University of Waterloo, Canada), Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)

Presentations of the Symposium

The “Hard Problem of Consciousness” Is Psychological

Iris Berent
Northeastern University

Beliefs About Consciousness Are Intertwined With Beliefs About Ethics

Matan Mazor
University of Oxford

Attributions of consciousness to AI: From Mind Perception to Trust

Clara Colombatto
University of Waterloo

Intuitions About Consciousness: From the Hard Problem to the Meta-Problem

David J. Chalmers
New York University

EEG Bifurcation Dynamics Around Visual Detection Threshold in No-Report

Max Opitz¹, Angelica Maria Nicolacoudis¹, Michael Cohen^2,3, Michael Pitts¹

1: Reed College, United States of America; 2: Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Amherst College; 3: McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Identification of Cortical Up and Down States with Recurrent Quantification Analysis

Amin Samipour¹, Leonardo Dalla Porta¹, Maria Victoria Sanchez-Vives^1,2

1: IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain; 2: ICREA, Barcelona, Spain

Real-Time and Offline Machine-Learning-Based Methods to Explore the Role of Consciousness in Action Formation Using Intracranial Human Recordings

Alejandro de Miguel Gomez¹, Ceci Verbaarschot², Robert A. Gaunt², Jennifer L. Collinger², Aaron Schurger¹, Uri Maoz¹

1: Chapman University, CA, USA; 2: University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

A Theoretical Model of Consciousness - from Sensory input to Behavioral Output

Ege Sayginer, Tugba Ozcan

Middle East Technical University

Different Sensitivity of Complexity Measures to Network Integration and Segregation

Gianluca Gaglioti¹, Thierry Nieus¹, Anna Cattani², Davide Momi^3,4, Renzo Comolatti^1,5, Marcello Massimini^1,6, Simone Sarasso¹

1: University of Milan; 2: Boston University; 3: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; 4: Stanford University Medical Center; 5: University of Wisconsin–Madison; 6: Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi

Investigating Neuromodulatory Imprint on Brain Activity by Phasic Firing Events of the Cholinergic Basal Forebrain Through Changes in fMRI Activity of Associated Brain Areas Using the REACT Toolbox

Nadja Schaller¹, Juliana Zimmermann², Rachel Nuttall², Afra Wohlschläger¹

1: Dept. of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University Munich, Germany; 2: Dept. of Anesthesiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University Munich, Germany

Observational vs Perturbational Measures of Brain Complexity: The Effects of Ongoing EEG Oscillations

Elena Focacci¹, Gabriel Hassan¹, Gianluca Gaglioti¹, Giulia Furregoni², Letizia Bernardelli², Silvia Casarotto^1,3, Marcello Massimini^1,3

1: University of Milan, Italy; 2: University of Camerino, Italy; 3: IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan, Italy

Neurophysiological Effects of Cholinesterase-Inhibiting Pesticides on Alertness and Drowsiness: Resting-State EEG Evidence from an Exposed Population

Boris Lucero¹, Maria Teresa Muñoz-Quezada², Andres Canales-Johnson^1,3, Tristan Bekinschtein³

1: CINPSI NEUROCOG, UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL MAULE, CHILE; 2: SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE; 3: CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION LAB, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK

Exploring the Neural Dynamics of Conscious Processing from Wakefulness to Sleep

Başak Türker¹, Delphine Oudiette², Thomas Andrillon², Isabelle Arnulf², Claire Sergent¹

1: Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center; 2: Paris Brain Institute

Task-Dependent Modulation of Synergistic Interaction in a Large fMRI Dataset Indicates Connections Between Consciousness and Cognition

James Knight¹, Pedro A. M. Mediano^2,3, Daniel Bor^1,4

1: Queen Mary University of London; 2: Imperial College London; 3: University College London; 4: University of Cambridge

Informational Complexity as a Neural Marker of Cognitive Reserve

Laura Stolp¹, Kanad N Mandke¹, Pedro AM Mediano², Helena M Gellersen^1,3, Alex Swartz⁴, Katarzyna Rudzka⁵, Jon Simons¹, Tristan A Bekinschtein¹, Daniel Bor^1,6

1: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: Imperial College London, United Kingdom; 3: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Germany; 4: University of Sussex, United Kingdom; 5: University College London, United Kingdom; 6: Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Understanding Long-Term Subjective Effects Of Serotonergic Interventions: A Machine Learning Approach

Hanna M. Tolle¹, Andrea I Luppi^2,3, Pedro A. M. Mediano¹

1: Imperial College London, United Kingdom; 2: University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 3: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Exploring the Edge of Stability: A Markov Blanket Simulation of Certainty and Entropy

Cagatay Demirel¹, Livia Regus²

1: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Netherlands, The; 2: Department of Social, Health and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 1, 3584 CS, Netherlands

Bifurcations in Neural Dynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Conscious Access

Thomas Valentin Hardy, Claire Sergent

INCC CNRS UMR8002, Université Paris-Cité, France

Using Classification from Report to No-report Trials to Reveal Neural Correlates of Consciousness

Gennadiy Belonosov¹, Oscar Ferrante², Ling Liu^3,4, Rony Hirschhorn¹, Ole Jensen^2,5, Huan Lou³, Lucia Melloni^6,7,8, Liad Mudrik^1,9, Michael Pitts¹⁰

1: Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel; 2: Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; 3: School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China; 4: School of Communication Science, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, 100083, China; 5: University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; 6: Department of Neurology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, 10016, USA; 7: Neural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, 60322, Germany; 8: RUHR-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum; 9: School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel; 10: Psychology Department, Reed College, Portland, OR, 97202, USA

Reconciling Phenomenal And Access Consciousness Through Evidence Accumulation

Nathan Faivre¹, Liad Mudrik², Michael Pitts³, Aaron Schurger⁴

1: CNRS; 2: TAU; 3: Reed College; 4: Chapman University

Inducing Dreaming During Anesthesia: A Novel EEG-Guided Experimental Protocol

Pilleriin Sikka^1,2,3, Ben Deverett¹, Boris Heifets^1,4

1: Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA; 2: Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy, School of Bioscience, University of Skövde, Sweden; 3: Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; 4: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA

Nitrous Oxide As An Experimental Model Of Dissociation

Devin B. Terhune

King's College London, United Kingdom

A Case Of Ketamine-Induced Near-Death Experience: Memory Content Evolution Over Time And Lasting Effects

Pauline Fritz^1,2, Aurore Ancion^1,3, Naji Alnagger^1,2, Nicolas Lejeune^1,2, Anaïs Rourre¹, Alexandre Ghuysen³, Olivia Gosseries^1,2, Charlotte Martial^1,2

1: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium; 2: NeuroRehab & Consciousness Clinic, Neurology Department , University Hospital of Liège; 3: Department of Emergency, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium

A Model of Different States of Consciousness Linking Receptor Scale to Whole-brain Scale

Maria Sacha, Federico Tesler, Rodrigo Cofre, Alain Destexhe

CNRS, Paris-Saclay University, France

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Primate Brain Dynamics Across States Of Consciousness

Guylaine Hoffner¹, Pablo Castro^1,2, Lynn Uhrig^1,3, Camilo Miguel Signorelli^4,5,6, Morgan Dupont¹, Jordy Tasserie⁷, Alain Destexhe², Rodrigo Cofre^2,8, Jacobo Sitt⁹, Bechir Jarraya^1,10

1: U992 Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin Center, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 2: Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), Paris-Saclay University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 3: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Necker Hospital, AP-HP, Université de Paris Cité, 75015, Paris, France; 4: Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, 7 Parks Rd, Oxford OUX1 3QG; 5: Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Movement Biomechanics (LNMB), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Route de Lennik 808, CP 640, Building N, campus Erasme, 1070 Brussels; 6: Center for Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, University of Copenhagen, Karen Blixens Plads 8, Copenhagen 2300, Denmark.; 7: Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; 8: Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL University, Sorbonne Université and Université Paris Cité, 75005 Paris, France; 9: Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Inserm, CNRS, Paris 75013, France; 10: Department of Neurology, Hopital Foch, 92150, Suresnes, France

Hemodynamic Alterations To Propofol, Ketamine And LSD And The Effect On Neurotransmitter Associated Functional Connectivity

Jitka Annen^1,2, Naji L.N. Alnagger², Guorong Wu³, Vincent Bonhomme^4,5, Robin Carhat-Harris⁷, Leor Roseman⁸, Gang Chen⁶, Daniele Marinazzo¹

1: Department of Data Analysis, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; 2: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 3: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China; 4: Anesthesia and Perioperative Neuroscience, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 5: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 6: Scientific and Statistical Computing Core, National Institute of Mental Health, USA; 7: Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California San Francisco; 8: Department of Psychology Huxley Foundation Fellow in Psychedelic Research, University of Exeter

Complex Auditory Regularity Processing in Comatose Patients after Cardiac Arrest

Andria Pelentritou¹, Jacinthe Cataldi¹, Frederic Zubler², Manuela Iten³, Matthias Haenggi⁴, Nawfel Ben-Hamouda⁵, Andrea Rossetti⁶, Athina Tzovara^7,8, Marzia De Lucia^1,9

1: Brain-Body and Consciousness Laboratory, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) & University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; 2: Department of Neurology, Spitalzentrum Biel, University of Bern, Biel, Switzerland; 3: Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; 4: Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 5: Department of Adult Intensive Care Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) & University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; 6: Department of Neurology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) & University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; 7: Institute of Computer Science, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; 8: Center for Experimental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Bern University Hospital (Inselspital), Bern, Switzerland; 9: Centre for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Lausanne, Switzerland

Critical Brain Dynamics and Prognosis in Disorders of Consciousness Through Personalized Connectome

Ivan Mindlin¹, Romain Delsanti¹, Ruben Herzog¹, Adrian Ponce-Alvarez^2,3, Jacobo Diego Sitt¹, Yonatan Sanz Perl³

1: Paris Brain Institute, France; 2: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain; 3: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Exploring Olfactory Stimuli Responses as Neural Markers of Consciousness in DoC Patients: an fMRI Study

Maria Sourdi, Alisa Kiker

University of Vienna/ Medical University of Vienna, Austria

A Case-report of a Patient in a Minimally Conscious State Receiving Psilocybin as a Potential Novel Treatment

Paolo Cardone^1,2, Pablo Núñez^1,2, Anaïs Elodie Gillet¹, Naji Alnagger^1,2, Charlotte Martial^1,2, Glenn Van der Lande^1,2, Robin Sandell³, Robin Carhart-Harris^4,5, Olivia Gosseries^1,2

1: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liège, Belgium; 2: NeuroRehab & Consciousness Clinic, Neurology Department, University Hospital of Liège, Belgium; 3: Staff Research Associate at the University of California San Francisco, California, USA; 4: Centre for Psychedelic Research, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, UK; 5: Carhart-Harris Lab, Dept. of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, California, USA

Breathing as a Window into Consciousness in Disorders of Consciousness Patients

Anat Arz

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Neuropsychological, Electrophysiological, and Phenomenological Signatures of Zolpidem: A Pilot Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial

Fatemeh Seyfzadeh^1,2,3, Michiel Meys^1,2,3, Pauline Fritz^1,2, Mélanie Louras^2,3, Nicolas Lejeune^1,2,4, Aurore Thibaut^1,2,3, Vincent Bonhomme^5,6,7, Olivia Gosseries^1,2

1: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 2: NeuroRehab & Consciousness Clinic, Neurology Department, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 3: NeuroRecovery Lab, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 4: GIGA-CRC human imaging, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 5: Interdisciplinary Algology Center, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 6: Anesthesia and Perioperative Neuroscience Laboratory, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 7: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Establishing Feasibility For Measuring Multi-unit Activity Within Ictal Period Of Seizures With Preserved Vs Impaired Consciousness.

Urszula Gorska-Klimowska¹, Beril Mat¹, Dillon Scott², Brinda Sevak^2,3, Colin Denis^2,4, Csaba Kozma^2,5, Mariel Kalkach-Aparicio^2,6, Aaron Suminski⁷, Aaron Struck², Giulio Tononi¹, Melanie Boly^1,2, Wendell Lake⁷

1: Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin - Madison; 2: Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin - Madison; 3: Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group, UC Davis (current); 4: Department of Mathematics, The University of Utah (current); 5: Computational Neurology, Neuroscience & Psychiatry Lab, Newcastle University (current); 6: University of South Dacota, Sanford Health (current); 7: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Wisconsin - Madison, * first two authors co-first; # last two authors co-last.

Cortical Metabolic Changes in Disorders of Consciousness Follow Canonical Functional Gradients

Niall W. Duncan, Elizaveta Baranova, Timothy J. Lane

Taipei Medical University, Taiwan

Quantitative EEG and Machine Learning for Prognostic Evaluation in Pediatric Disorders of Consciousness: a Novel Approach Using Complexity and Spectral Measures

Jacopo Favaro¹, Francesco Colussi², Edoardo Passarotto³, Claudio Ancona¹, Stefano Sartori¹, Giorgio Perilongo¹, Giovanni Sparacino², Maria Rubega³, Irene Toldo¹

1: Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova, Italy; 2: Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; 3: Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Italy

Preliminary Results on Outcome Prediction in Disorders of Consciousness After Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury Using Advanced MRI Metrics

Daniel Tchemerinsky Konieczny¹, John Bro-Jeppesen², Christian Juhl Terkelsen², Kristian Sandberg¹

1: Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark; 2: Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark

Closed-loop Application Of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) For Patients With Chronic Minimally Conscious State

Géraldine Martens¹, Alice Barra^2,3, Pablo Núñez Novo³, David Ibáñez-Soria⁴, Eleni Kroupi⁴, Aureli Soria-Frisch⁴, Andrea Piarulli⁵, Olivia Gosseries³, Nicolas Lejeune^3,6, Ricardo Salvador⁴, Karan Chugani⁴, Michael A Nitsche^7,8, Steven Laureys³, Giulio Ruffini⁴, Aurore Thibaut¹

1: NeuroRecovery Lab, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Belgium; 2: IRENEA – Instituto de Rehabilitación Neurológica, Fundación Hospitales Vithas, València, Spain; 3: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 4: Starlab Barcelona SL, Barcelona, Spain; 5: Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular and Critical Area Pathology, University of Pisa, Italy; 6: Clinique de la Conscience et de NeuroRevalidation; 7: Dept. Psychology and Neurosciences, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany; 8: Department of Neurology, University Medical Hospital Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Germany

Auditory Neural Synchronization And Consciousness: EEG Study With Binaural Beats

Joana Sayal¹, Alexandre Celma-Miralles², Boris Kleber², Óscar F. Gonçalves³

1: CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal; 2: Center for Music in the Brain, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & R.A.M.A, Denmark; 3: Brainloop Laboratory, CINTESIS@RISE, CINTESIS.UPT, Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique, Portugal

Linking Brain Activity to Consciousness in a Case of Severe Prefrontal Injury: A Case Study and Control Group Comparison

Elizaveta Baranova, Timothy J. Lane, Niall W. Duncan

Taipei Medical University, Taiwan

Multimodal and Dynamical Assessment in Disorders of Consciousness: An Approach Integrating Computer Vision, EEG, and ECG.

Bruno Michelot¹, Alexandra Corneyllie¹, Stefan Duffner², Fabien Perrin¹

1: Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Bron, France; 2: Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information (LIRIS), Villeurbanne, France

Autoregressive Modelling for State Prediction in Disorders of Consciousness

Andrei Ciuparu¹, Samuel Dolean¹, Laouen Belloli³, Ivan Mindlin², Jacobo Sitt², Raul Muresan¹

1: Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience (TINS), Romania; 2: Paris Brain Institute (ICM), France; 3: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Brazil

Automatic Segmentation Of Brain Lesions Leading To Disorders Of Consciousness

Clémence Bobichon^1,2, Maude Beaudoin-Gobert², Carole Lartizien³, Nicolas Costes³, Inès Mérida³, Jacques Luauté^1,4, Florent Gobert^1,4

1: Univ. Grenoble Alpes , Fonds de dotation Clinatec, Grenoble, France; 2: Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Bron, France; 3: CERMEP – Imagerie du Vivant, Bron, France; 4: Hospices Civils de Lyon, Bron, France

EEG Dynamic Regimes and the Contributions of Regional Glucose Uptake in a Large Cohort of Patients With Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness

Glenn J.M. van der Lande¹, Michiel Meys^1,2,3, Nicolas Lejeune^1,2, Olivia Gosseries^1,2, Aurore Thibaut^1,2,3, Gang Chen⁴, Mary M. Conte⁵, Nicholas D. Schiff⁵, Steven Laureys^1,6, Daniele Marinazzo⁷, Jitka Annen^1,2,7

1: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 2: NeuroRehab & Consciousness Clinic, Neurology Department, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 3: NeuroRecovery Lab, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 4: Scientific and Statistical Computing Core, National Institute of Mental Health, USA; 5: Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA; 6: Joint International Research Unit on Consciousness, CERVO Brain Research Centre, Laval University, Québec, Canada; 7: Department of Data Analysis, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Can fMRI Inform Prognostication Of Prolonged Disorders Of Consciousness? Very Long Term Follow Up Of A Research Cohort (N=72)

Judith Allanson^1,2, Ashraff Ali², Evelyn Kamau³, Emmanuel Stamatakis¹, David Menon¹, Stephen Barclay⁴, John Pickard³

1: Division of Anaesthetics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: Royal Hospital for Neurodisability, Putney, London; 3: Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge; 4: Department of Public health and Primary care, University of Cambridge

Disentangling Information Integration And Awareness In Disorders Of Consciousness And Delirium: An EEG Connectivity Study

Vera Blanchys¹, Alexandra Corneyllie¹, Clémence Bobichon¹, Florent Gobert¹, Maude Beaudoin¹, Marzia De Lucia², Stein Silva³, Fabrice Ferré¹, Fabien Perrin¹

1: CAP Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre, Bron, France; 2: Laboratoire de recherche en neuroimagerie, Lausanne, Switzerland; 3: ToNIC Lab - University Hospital, Toulouse, France

Establishing fNIRS-Based Hemodynamic Patterns: A Baseline for Applications in Disorders of Consciousness

Lauren H. Furtick¹, Martin M. Monti², Holli A. DeVon¹, Mary-Lynn Brecht¹, Julia C. Ponce¹, Paul M. Macey¹

1: UCLA School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States; 2: Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Towards Targeted Thalamic Ultrasound Interventions in Disorders of Consciousness

Daniel Torbett-Schofield^1,2, Benjamin Griffiths^1,2, Sang-Hoon Yeo^2,3, Joseph Galea^1,2, Davinia Fernandez-Espejo^1,2

1: School of Psychology, University of Birmingham; 2: Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham; 3: School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham

Caught Between Sleep and Wake: Electrophysiological Insights of Changes in Conscious Experiences in Hypersomnia

Arthur Le Coz^1,2, Raphael Vollhardt², Marie Degrave¹, Smaranda Leu-Semenescu², Pauline Dodet^1,2, Ana Gales², Delphine Oudiette^1,2, Isabelle Arnulf^1,2, Thomas Andrillon^1,2

1: Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France.; 2: Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Inserm, CNRS, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, DMU APPROCHES, Paris, France

Levels of Dreaming: A Multilevel Framework Approach

Simone Anthes

Osnabrück University, Germany

Experimentally Altering Dream Content in REM Sleep to Promote Creative Problem-Solving

Karen Rose Konkoly¹, Daniel Morris¹, Kaitlyn Hurka¹, Kristin Sanders², Ken Paller¹

1: Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: University of Notre Dame, United States of America

Expectation and Surprise in the Sleeping Brain: Auditory Omission Prediction Error Response in NREM and REM Sleep

Sharon Yakim^1,3,4, Christine Blume⁵, Tristan Bekinschtein², Anat Arzi^3,4

1: Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; 2: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK; 3: Department of Medical Neurobiology & Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; 4: Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; 5: Centre for Chronobiology, Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel. Research Platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel. Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Investigating the Relation Between Consciousness Experience and Attentional Capture.

Nadav Itzhak Weisler, Ran Hassin

The Hebrew University, Israel

Melodies In Slumber: Neural Decoding Of Musical Expectations In Human Sleep

Michelle George¹, Cagatay Demirel², Marc Schwartz-Pallejà^3,4, Ugur Can Akkaya⁵, Miriam Akkermann^5,6, Dirk Pflüger⁷, Martin Dresler², Thomas Andrillon^1,8

1: Paris Brain Institute, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; 2: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; 3: Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; 4: Eurecat,Technology Center of Catalonia, Multimedia Technologies, Barcelona, Spain; 5: Institute of Arts and Music, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; 6: Ernst-von-Siemens Stiftungsprofessur for New Music, Institute for Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin; 7: Scientific Computing Group, Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany; 8: Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

A Call for Research on Lucid Dreaming and Dream Control

Clarita Bonamino¹, Emma Peters²

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Bern University, Switzerland

Decoding the Neural Correlates of Dream Recall from Sleep EEG Using Machine Learning

Arthur Dehgan^1,2, Anirudh Kemtur^1,2, Arna Gosh², Tarek Lajnef¹, Raphael Vallat³, Jean-Baptiste Eichenlaub⁴, Perrine Ruby⁵, Irina Rish², Karim Jerbi^1,2,6

1: CoCo Lab, Psychology Department, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; 2: MILA (Quebec AI Institute), Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 3: Center for Human Sleep Science at UC Berkeley, California, USA; 4: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France & Institut Universitaire de France (IUF); 5: Perception Attention Mémoire (PAM), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France; 6: UNIQUE Center (Quebec Neuro-AI Research Center), Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Tired, Weary or just Sleepy? Sleep-Like Intrusions in Wakefulness as a Unifying Mechanism of Mental Fatigue

Thomas Andrillon^1,2

1: Sorbonne University, Paris Brain Institute, Inserm, CNRS, APHP, France; 2: Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University, Australia

Does Waking Frontal Alpha Asymmetry (FAA) Predict Affective Experiences in Home Dreams?

Enyu Lin¹, Nanna Strid^1,2, Simone Grassini^3,4, Henry Railo¹, Antti Revonsuo^1,2, Pilleriin Sikka^1,2,5,6

1: Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Finland; 2: Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy, University of Skövde, Sweden; 3: Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Norway; 4: Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Stavanger, Norway; 5: Department of Psychology, Stanford University, CA, USA; 6: Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, CA, USA

Self-Consciousness in Vicarious Dreams

Melanie G Rosen

Trent University, Canada

When Consciousness And Sleep Collide: Sensory Sensitivity And Arousal As Factors In Parasomnia Occurance

Sian O. Panton, Shivani Kapoor, Lynne Kabbara, Giulia L. Poerio

University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Whole Βrain Network Dynamics Follow Arousal Fluctuations in Insomnia

Nicholas John Simos^1,2,4, Paradeisios Alexandros Boulakis^2,3,4, Athena Demertzi^2,3,4, Christina Schmidt^1,3,4

1: Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, GIGA Research, CRC Human Imaging Unit, Allée du 6 Août 8 (B30), University of Liège, 4000, Belgium; 2: Physiology of Cognition Lab, GIGA Research, CRC Human Imaging Unit, Allée du 6 Août 8 (B30), University of Liège, 4000, Belgium; 3: Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, University of Liège, Place des Orateurs 3 (B33), 4000, Belgium; 4: Fund for Scientific Research FNRS, Rue d’Egmont 5, B –1000, Brussels, Belgium

What Crosses Your Mind when You Fall Asleep? Data-driven Classification of Conscious Experiences During the Sleep Onset Period.

Nicolas Decat¹, Jade Sénéchal¹, Ilona Scellier-Dekens¹, Hannah de Verville¹, Arthur Le Coz¹, Ruben Herzog¹, Théophile Bieth¹, Isabelle Arnulf^1,2, Emmanuelle Volle¹, Thomas Andrillon¹, Delphine Oudiette^1,2

1: Paris Brain Institute, Sorbonne Universite, Inserm-CNRS, Paris, 75013, France; 2: APHP-Sorbonne, Pitie-Salpetriere University, Hospital Sleep Disorders Unit, Paris, France

Sleep Affects Low-gamma Range Effective Cortical Connectivity for 40-Hz Auditory Steady-state Responses.

Anna Zofia Lesniewska¹, Urszula Gorska-Klimowska^1,2, Malgorzata Holda¹, Miroslaw Wyczesany¹, Marek Binder¹

1: Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; 2: Center for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, US

Neural Correlates of Auditory Perceptual Consciousness During Sleep

Jeanne Caron-Guyon¹, François Stockart², Dominique Hoffmann³, Lorella Minotti^1,4, Philippe Kahane^1,4, Michael Pereira¹, Jean-Baptiste Eichenlaub², Alexis Robin^1,4, Nathan Faivre²

1: Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U1216, Grenoble-Alpes University Hospital, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 38000, Grenoble, France; 2: Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS UMR 5105, Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, 38000 Grenoble, France; 3: Department of Neurosurgery, Grenoble-Alpes University Hospital, Grenoble, France; 4: Department of Neurology, Grenoble-Alpes University Hospital, Grenoble, France

The Dreaming Self: Investigating Sleep and Dream Experiences in Depersonalisation-Derealisation, Depression and Anxiety

Evelyn Dilkes¹, Anna Ciaunica², Helge Gillmeister¹

1: University of Essex, United Kingdom; 2: GAIPS INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

State Predictors of Dream Recall

Somayeh Ataei^1,2, Nikolai Axmacher¹, Martin Dresler², Sarah Schoch^2,3

1: Department of Neuropsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany; 2: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; 3: Center of Competence Sleep & Health Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, CH, Switzerland

The Brainstem Navigator: A Toolkit For In-vivo Brainstem Nuclei Atlasing, Connectomics And Evaluation Of Arousal And Sleep Mechanisms In Humans

Marta Bianciardi^1,2

1: Brainstem Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States MGH and Harvard Medical School, USA; 2: Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

From Self-Dissolution to Self-Liberation: A Neurophenomenological Perspective

Aviva Berkovich-Ohana

Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center; University of Haifa

Dynamical Structure-Function Correlations Provide Robust And Generalizable Signatures of Consciousness In Humans

Pablo Castro^1,2, Andrea Luppi^3,4, Enzo Tagliazucchi^5,6,7, Yonatan Perl^5,6,8,9, Lorina Naci^10,11, Adrian Owen¹², Jacobo Sitt⁸, Alain Destexhe², Rodrigo Cofre²

1: Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin Center, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 2: Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), Paris-Saclay University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 3: Division of Anaesthesia and Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; 4: Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; 5: Buenos Aires Physics Institute and Physics Department, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 6: National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 7: Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; 8: Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau—Paris Brain Institute—ICM, Inserm, CNRS, Paris, France; 9: Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; 10: Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 11: Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 12: Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology and Psychology, Western University, London, Canada

Brain Criticality Under GABAergic Sedation Outperforms Drug-Free State in Predicting Recovery of Consciousness After Severe Brain Injury Across the Lifespan

Derek Newman^1,9, Charlotte Maschke^1,9, Loretta Norton², Catherine Duclos^3,4, Geoffrey Laforge², Xiaoyu Wang^2,5, Hassan Al-Hayawi², Raphaël Lavoi^1,9, Kevin Jones⁶, Mark Grinberg⁶, Kristine Woodward⁷, Michael Esser⁷, Adrian M. Owen², Stefanie Blain-Moraes^8,9

1: McGill University, Montreal Québec, Canada; 2: Western Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, and Department of Psychology, Western University, Canada; 3: Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; 4: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; 5: School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Dalian University of Technology, China; 6: Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, Canada; 7: Department of Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; 8: School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal Québec, Canada; 9: Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal Québec, Canada

The Thalamic CM/PF Complex is a Mesocircuit Key Node in Arousal Disorders: New Evidences from a Preclinical Study Combining Reversible Perturbations and Simultaneous PET-MR Imaging in Non-human Primates.

Julie Meliné Maulavé^1,2, Justine Debatisse¹, Simon Clavagnier^1,2, Lisa Gauthier^1,2, Davide Elia Bisceglia¹, Benjamin Pasquereau¹, Inès Mérida³, Nicolas Costes³, Jacques Luauté^4,5, Florent Gobert^4,5, Maude Beaudoin-Gobert⁴, Léon Tremblay^1,2

1: Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, UMR-5229 CNRS, 67 boulevard Pinel, 69675 Bron Cedex, France; 2: Université Claude-Bernard Lyon1, 69100, Villeurbanne, France; 3: CERMEP-Imagerie du Vivant, 59 Bd Pinel, 69677 Bron France; 4: Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CNRL), CNRS UMR5292, INSERM U1028, Lyon, France; 5: Trajectoires team - CNRL, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France

Face to Face, Eye to Eye: Eye-tracking for Consciousness Assessment in intensive care unit

Maude Beaudoin-Gobert¹, Anthony Clerc¹, Clémence Bobichon^1,2, Florent Gobert^1,3, Jacques Luauté^1,3

1: Lyon Neuroscience research Center, France; 2: Clinatec; 3: Hospices Civils de Lyon

Neural Complexity and Spatiotemporal Information Flow as Predictors of Acute Coma Recovery Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: An Invasive Electrocorticography Study

Rajanikant Panda¹, Kevin Bao¹, Narayan Sankaran², David Caldwell¹, Matheus Otero¹, Anthony Mefford¹, Roxanne Simmons¹, Britta Lindquist¹, Vishnu Karukonda¹, Anthony DiGiorgio¹, Phiroz Tarapore¹, Lawrence Chyall¹, Edward Chang¹, Claude Hemphill¹, Geoffrey Manley¹, Michael Huang¹, Edilberto Amorim¹

1: University of California San Francisco, United States of America; 2: University of San Francisco, United States of America

The Role Of Etiology In The Identification Of Clinical Markers Of Consciousness

Charlotte Maschke¹, Laouen Belloli^2,3, Dragana Manasova², Jacobo D. Sitt², Stefanie Blain-Moraes¹

1: McGill University, Montreal, Canada; 2: Sorbonne Université, Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France; 3: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Intrinsic Universal Structures and Extrinsic Local Functions

Francesco Ellia^1,2, Naotsugu Tsuchiya^2,1,3

1: ATR - Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Japan; 2: School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Australia; 3: Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

Real-Time Synthetic Image Evolution for Probing the Neural Correlates of Subjective Fear

Darius Valevicius, Celine Haddad, Michelle Beaudoin, Marjorie Côté, Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel

University of Montreal, Canada

A Dynamic Bifurcation Mechanism Explains Cortex-Wide Neural Correlates of Conscious Access

Ulysse Klatzmann^1,2,3,8, Sean Froudist-Walsh^2,3, Daniel Bliss², Panagiota Theodoni^2,4, Jorge Mejias⁵, Meiqi Niu⁶, Lucija Rapan⁶, Nicola Palomero-Gallagher^6,7, Claire Sergent^1,8, Stanislas Dehaene^9,10, Xiao-Jing Wang²

1: Unviersité Paris Cité, France; 2: Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York; 3: Bristol Computational Neuroscience Unit, School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol; 4: Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness, Department of Philosophy, New York University; 5: Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam; 6: Research Center Julich, Germany; 7: C. and O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research, Heinrich-Heine-University, Germany; 8: CNRS, France; 9: College de France, France; 10: Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA, France

Ephaptic-Axonal Interactions Explain Radial Biases During Neural Self-Organization

Daniel Leon Rebbin^1,2, Casper Hesp²

1: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Exploring the Role of the Basal Ganglia in Thalamocortical Loops: Gatekeepers or Constituents of the Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

Nicolas Kuske¹, Fred Hamker²

1: Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute, France; 2: Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Revisiting the Role of the Anterior Insula in Consciousness: Is Predictive Coding the Missing Link?

Leyla Loued-Khenissi

Department of Clincial Neuroscience, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland

The Autonomy of Conscious Representation

James David Stazicker

King's College London, United Kingdom

How To Determine If A Human Is Conscious? Towards A Unifying Conceptual Framework For Consciousness Tests

Joaquim Streicher^1,2, Guillaume Dumas^1,3,4, Silvia Casarotto⁵, Tim Bayne^4,6, Adrian Owen^4,7, Marcello Massimini^4,5, Liad Mudrik^4,8, Catherine Duclos^1,2,4

1: University of Montreal, Canada; 2: Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, Canada; 3: Hôpital Sainte-Justine, Canada; 4: CIFAR Brain, Mind & Consciousness Program, Canada; 5: University of Milan, Italy; 6: Monash University, Australia; 7: Western University, Canada; 8: Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Does It Make Sense to Speak of Introspection in Large Language Models?

Iulia Comsa¹, Murray Shanahan²

1: Google DeepMind; 2: Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Using LLMs to Decode the Structure of Thought in Psychiatry

Sebastian Dohnány, Matthew Nour

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Biologism, Functionalism And Structuralism About Consciousness

Hedda Hassel Mørch

University of Inland Norway

50 Years Since Nagel’s Bat: Physicalism, Subjective Facts And Self-understanding Systems

Robert Van Gulick

Syracuse University, United States of America

Individualised Electrophysiological Neural Field Models for the Assessment of Thalamocortical Mechanisms in Disorders of Consciousness: a Multicentre Study

Lín Cóngyǔ^1,2,3, Prejaas Tewarie^4,5, Naji L.N. Alnagger^2,3, Iván Mindlin¹, Laouen Belloli¹, Steven Laureys^2,3,5,6, Lionel Naccache^1,7, Benjamin Rohaut^1,7, Aurore Thibaut^2,3, Jitka Annen^2,3,8, Olivia Gosseries^2,3, Pablo Núñez^,3,9,10, Jacobo D. Sitt¹

1: Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Inserm, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; 2: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 3: Centre du Cerveau2, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 4: Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Physics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; 5: CERVO Brain Research Centre, Laval University, Québec, Canada; 6: International Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China; 7: Département de Neurophysiologie, Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Charles Foix, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; 8: Department of Data Analysis, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; 9: Biomedical Engineering Group, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.; 10: Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina, (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain

Connectivity Correlates For Wakefulness Behaviour During Coma Recovery : A Correlative Analysis During 24h Recordings

Florent Gobert^1,2, Srivas Chennu^3,4, Alexandra Corneylliev², Marc Thevenet², Frédéric Dailler¹, Jacques Luauté^1,2, Fabien Perrin¹

1: Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France; 2: Lyon Neurosciences Research Center, Lyon, France; 3: Division of Neurosurgery, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdomv; 4: School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdomv

The Different Layers Of Consciousness Detection: A Multimodal Exploration In Patients Recovering From Prolonged Unresponsiveness

Gabriel Hassan¹, Silvia Casarotto^1,2, Michele Colombo¹, Tiziana Atzori², Chiara Camilla Derchi², Jorge Navarro², Angela Comanducci², Brian L. Edlow³, Marcello Massimini^1,2, Mario Rosanova¹

1: Dept. Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Italy; 2: IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan, Italy; 3: Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Towards the Neurochemical Architecture of Disorders of Consciousness

Arianna Sala^1,2, Michiel Meys^1,2, Naji Alnagger^1,2, Nikita Beliy¹, Simona Abagnale^1,3, Danuta Szirmai⁴, Baris Kaan OK¹, Zhixin Wang¹, Marjorie Bardiau¹, Simon Eickhoff^5,6, Daniel Martins⁷, Marco Tettamanti⁸, Charlotte Beaudart⁹, Steven Laureys^1,10, Olivia Gosseries^1,2, Aurore Thibaut^1,2, Jitka Annen^1,2,11

1: University of Liège, Liege, Belgium; 2: University Hospital of Liège, Liege, Belgium; 3: University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy; 4: Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; 5: Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; 6: Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; 7: King's College London, London, United Kingdom; 8: University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy,; 9: University of Namur, Namur, Belgium; 10: Laval University, Quebec, Canada; 11: University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Unveiling Clouded Consciousness: Broad-band EEG Slowing And Recovery From Post-Traumatic Confusional State

Michele A Colombo¹, Chiara-Camilla Derchi¹, Tiziana Atzori², Pietro Arcuri², Chiara Valota², Pietro D Trimarchi², Arturo Chieregato³, Jorge Navarro², Marcello Massimini^2,3, Angela Comanducci²

1: Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; 2: IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy; 3: Niguarda Hospital, Piazza Ospedale Maggiore, 3, Milano, 20162, Italy

Bioelectrical And Clinical Features Of Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation In Acute Consciousness Disorders

Marie M. Vitello^1,2,3, Michiel Meys^1,2,3, Emma Remacle¹, Paolo Cardone^1,2, Amandine Regnier^1,2,4, Nicolas Lejeune^1,2, Olivia Gosseries^1,2, Jitka Annen^1,2,5, Didier Ledoux^2,6, Didier Martin⁷, Steven Laureys^1,8, Aurore Thibaut^1,2,3

1: Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 2: NeuroRehab & Consciousness Clinic, Neurology Department, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 3: NeuroRecovery Lab, GIGA-Consciousness, GIGA-Neuroscience, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 4: Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 5: Department of Data Analysis, University of Ghent, B9000, Ghent, Belgium; 6: Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 7: Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 8: Canada Excellence Research Chair on Neuroplasticity, Joint International Research Unit on Neuroplasticity, Laval University, CERVO Brain Research Centre, Quebec, Canada

Objective and Subjective Empirical Approaches in Consciousness Research

Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort^1,2, Simon van Gaal², Timo Stein²

1: Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 2: University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Large-scale Integration of Conscious Content: a Nonlinear Dynamics Approach

Andres Canales-Johnson^1,2,3

1: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: Neuroscience Center, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Finland; 3: Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile

Thalamic Control of Perceptual Thresholds in a Connectome Based Model of Conscious Access

Christopher J. Whyte, Brandon R. Munn, Annie G. Bryant, Eli J. Muller, James M. Shine

The University of Sydney, Australia

EEG Decoding Reveals Posterior but Not Prefrontal Cortex Involvement in Subjective Awareness Independent of Report

Sabine Gnodde¹, Vlada Aslanov^2,3, Abigail Hogan¹, Jolien Francken¹, Umberto Olcese¹, Timo Stein³

1: Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Group, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam; 2: Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Cognitive Psychology, VU; 3: Brain and Cognition group, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam

A Two-layer Neural Network Framework to Model the Temporal Dynamics of Neural Correlates of Consciousness

Artemio Soto Breceda¹, Stockart François², Msheik Ramla², Nathan Faivre², Dominique Hoffmann³, Lorella Minotti⁴, Philippe Kahane⁴, Alexis Robin⁴, João Barbosa^5,6, Michael Pereira¹

1: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 38000 Grenoble, France; 2: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France; 3: Neurosurgery Department, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U121, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 3800 Grenoble, France; 4: Neurology Department, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U121, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 3800 Grenoble, France; 5: Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif/Yvette, France; 6: Institut de Neuromodulation, GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

Adaptive Arousal Regulation: How Ongoing Fluctuations in Arousal Affect Conscious Perception

Simon van Gaal¹, Lola Beerendonk¹, Jorge Mejias², Stijn A Nuiten³, Jan Willem de Gee², Jasper B Zantvoord⁴, Johannes J. Fahrenfort^1,5

1: Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.; 2: Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.; 3: Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Switzerland.; 4: Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.; 5: Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology - Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

On the Logic of Measuring Neural Correlates of Consciousness

Johannes Kleiner^1,2

1: Institute for Psychology, University of Bamberg; 2: Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Metacognition as Modal Cognition

Kevin O'Neill, Stephen Fleming

University College London, United Kingdom

Palatable Conceptions of Disembodied Consciousness: Terra Incognita in the Space of Possible Minds

Murray Shanahan

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Mortal Computation, Medium Dependence and Functionalism

Holger Lyre

University of Magdeburg, Germany

The Starting Point Problem

Andy Kenneth Mckilliam

National Taiwan University, Australia

Existential Meaning in the Age of Neurocentrism and the Posthuman Future

Mette Leonard Høeg^1,2

1: Aarhus University, Denmark; 2: Oxford Uehiro Institue, University of Oxford

A Novel Framework Reveals Unconscious Shape Processing via Priming and EEG decoding

Timo Stein¹, Jun Jiang², Johannes J. Fahrenfort³, Simon van Gaal¹

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Third Military Medical University, China; 3: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Re-assessing Unconscious Perception And Unconscious Working Memory: A Bias-Free Paradigm With Visual Ensembles

Nirmitee Nitin Mulay^1,2, David Soto^1,3

1: Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain; 2: University of the Basque Country, Spain; 3: Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for Science, Spain

Is Unconscious Priming Real?

Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida¹, Simon van Gaal², Timo Stein², Johannes J. Fahrenfort^1,2

1: Department of Applied and Experimental Psychology, Free University Amsterdam; 2: Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam

Replicating the Unconscious Working Memory Effect: A Multisite Preregistered Study.

Alicia Franco-Martínez¹, Ricardo Rey-Sáez¹, David R. Shanks², David Soto³, Miguel A. Vadillo¹

1: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; 2: Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain; 3: University College London, UK

Unconscious Processing of Real-Life Scenes Revealed by Eye Movement Dynamics

Shaked Lublinsky¹, Shlomit Yuval-Greenberg^1,2, Liad Mudrik^1,2

1: Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel; 2: School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Is My Kitchen Your Kitchen? Explaining Idiosyncrasies in Scene Perception and Exploration Through Individual Differences in Internal Models.

Micha Engeser^1,2,3, Daniel Kaiser^1,2

1: Neural Computation Group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Physics, Geography, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen 35392, Germany; 2: Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Philipps-Universität Marburg, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen & Technische Universität Darmstadt, Marburg 35032, Germany; 3: Neural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

How Brain States Linked To Spontaneous Pupillary Fluctuations Modify Conscious And Unconscious Sensory Neural Processing

Plyfaa Suwanamalik-Murphy¹, Victoria Gobo^1,2, Javier Gonzalez-Castillo¹, Amaia Benitez-Andonegui³, Peter Bandettini^1,4, Sharif Kronemer¹

1: Section on Functional Imaging Methods, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland (MD), United States of America (USA); 2: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; 3: MEG Core Facility, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA; 4: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Core Facility, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

Exploring How Pupil-Linked Arousal Shapes Perception: The Role of Signal Strength (Task Difficulty)

Sean D. van Mil¹, Margot C.E. Steijger¹, Stijn A. Nuiten², Lola Beerendonk¹, Jan Willem de Gee³, Johannes J. Fahrenfort⁴, Timo Stein¹, Simon van Gaal¹

1: Dept. of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Dept. of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Switzerland; 3: Dept. of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 4: Dept. of Experimental and Applied Psychology - Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Role Of Prediction Error In Auditory Conscious Perception

Yamil Vidal¹, Jorie van Haren², Federico De Martino², Floris P. de Lange^1,3

1: Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; 2: Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 3: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Fundamental Properties of Predictive Information Processing And The Origins Of Consciousness: Evidence From Drosophila Melanogaster.

Maxime Janbon¹, Matthew Van De Poll², Bruno van Swinderen², Daniel Bor¹, Lars Chittka¹

1: Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; 2: Queensland Brain institute, The University of Queensland, St lucia, Qld Australia

Effects Of Priors And Feedback On False Perceptions Of Faces And Associated Confidence

Aziza Chebil¹, Nathan Faivre², Anna Castrioto^1,3, Michael Pereira¹

1: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, Grenoble, France;; 2: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, Grenoble, France; 3: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, Neurology Department, Grenoble, France

Exploring the Relationship between Human Arousal and Feedforward vs. Recurrent Processing

Margot Cornelia Elisabeth Steijger¹, Samuel Noorman^1,2, Lola Beerendonk¹, Sean David van Mil¹, Timo Stein¹, Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort^1,3, Simon van Gaal¹

1: Dept. of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL; 2: Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, UMR 8002, CNRS & Université de Paris, Paris 75006, FR; 3: Dept. of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL

Modelling Gist Perception and Phenomenology with Natural Hybrid Predictive Coding Networks

William S. K. Yun-Farmbrough¹, Ishan Singhal¹, Christopher L. Buckley^1,2, Anil K. Seth^1,3

1: Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom; 2: VERSES AI Resarch Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States; 3: Program for Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, Canada

Catecholamines Reduce Choice History Biases

Jan Willem de Gee¹, Niels Kloosterman², Anke Braun³, Tobias Donner⁴

1: University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 2: University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; 3: Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; 4: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

PEYES: An Open-Source Python Toolkit For Eye Tracking Data Analysis And Detector Evaluation

Jonathan Nir¹, Leon Yona Deouell^1,2

1: Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel; 2: Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190501, Israel

Activity In Extrastriate Body Area Reflects Robotically-induced Bias In Estimating Number Of Humans

Louis Philippe Albert¹, Bruno Herbelin¹, Fosco Bernasconi¹, Olaf Blanke^1,2

1: EPFL, Switzerland; 2: University of Geneva, Switzerland

Probing The Contents Of The Multi-feature Object Search Templates

Chris Brown

Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Backpropagation Does Not Discover Sequential Solutions to Static Hierarchical Tasks

Marcel Graetz, Alfonso Renart

Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal

Tagging Conscious Re-entry: An EEG Frequency Tagging Study of Re-emergence in Motion Induced Blindness

Jonathan Edward Robinson¹, András Zoltan Sárközy², Gyula Kovács², Jakob Hohwy¹

1: Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; 2: Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

The Time Course of Neural Activity Predictive of Impending Movement

Aaron Schurger¹, Lucas Jeay-Bizot¹, Robert Schapire², Uri Maoz¹, Mehmet Basbug³

1: Brain Institute, Chapman University, USA; 2: Microsoft Research, New York, New York, USA; 3: Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, USA

The Soft Problem of Consciousness: Consequences of the Human Affectome

Alessandra Nicoletta Cruz Yu¹, Daniela Schiller²

1: Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States; 2: Department of Psychiatry, the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, and the Friedman Brain Institute, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States

Short-run Cointegration for Neurophysiological Processes

Lionel Charles Barnett, Anil Kumar Seth

Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Increasing Power for Detecting Awareness: A New Approach to Test Group Level Objective Performance

Shaked Lublinsky¹, Itay Yaron¹, William Marshall², Liad Mudrik^1,3

1: Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; 2: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada; 3: School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Rethinking Subjective vs. Objective Thresholds

JoJo Widi, Aaron Schurger

Chapman University, United States of America

Decoding Conscious Auditory Perception: a Task-related vs. Task-free fMRI Study

Julie Boyer¹, Benoit Beranger², Alizée Lopez-Persem³, Nathan Beraud¹, Hortense Gouyette¹, Claire Sergent¹

1: Université Paris Cité, INCC UMR 8002, CNRS, Paris, France; 2: Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche - CENIR, Institut du Cerveau - ICM, Paris, France; 3: FrontLab, Institut du Cerveau - ICM, Inserm, CNRS, Sorbonne University, APHP, Paris, France

Advancing the Parcellation of the Pulvinar with a Multimodal Informational Framework

Sara Cavuoti Cabanillas^1,2,3, Marco Tamietto^3,4, Pietro Avanzini Avanzini⁵, Matteo Diano^3,4, Luca Bonini²

1: International School of Advanced Studies, Theoretical and Applied Neuroscience, Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy; 2: Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy; 3: Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; 4: Neuroscience Institute of Turin (NIT), Turin, Italy; 5: CNR, Istituto di Neuroscienze, Parma, Italy

Mind, Language, and Experience

Richard Davies Gill

Oxford University; UKAEA, retired, United Kingdom

Transdisciplinary Science for Consciousness Science, Design and Ongoing Examples in the Field

Camilo Miguel Signorelli^1,2, Mar Estarellas³, Ignacio Cea⁴

1: Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 3: Consciousness and Cognition Lab, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 4: Center for Research, Innovation and Creation, Temuco Catholic University, Chile

Does Consciousness Matter Morally? A Survey on Folk and Expert Intuitions

Rony Hirschhorn, Niccolo Negro, Liad Mudrik

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Trust In Phenomenology

Ohad Livnat, Ran Hassin

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Cognitive Phenomenology Enables Complex Behavior

Wiktor Piotr Lachowski

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Why Is Anything Conscious?

Michael Timothy Bennett¹, Sean Welsh², Anna Ciaunica^3,4

1: School of Computing, Australian National University, ACT, Australia.; 2: Engine No. 2, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.; 3: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, WC1N 3AZ, London, UK.; 4: Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal.

A transcendental refutation of Dennett’s Theory of Consciousness--A Dialogue between Fichte and Dennett

Hui Gao

Inner Mongolia University, China, People's Republic of

Ontological Diversity in Fundamental Physics and its Significance for Consciousness Research

Alfredo Parra-Hinojosa¹, Chris Percy^1,2

1: Qualia Research Institute, United Kingdom; 2: University of Derby

Why Experiences Feel The Way They Do: Intrinsicalism Or Relationalism

Davide Aldé^1,2

1: Monash University, Australia; 2: Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies (M3CS)

A Logical ‘Deadlock’ for Qualia: Why Accepting or Rejecting Zombies Points to Illusionism

Taras Tarasenko

First Moscow State Medical University, Russian Federation

Does Consciousness Suddenly Disappear?

Maria Avramidou

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Consciousness in “Moral” Responsibility - A Reframed Consequentialist Account

Ting Huang

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Does Phenomenology Support the Axiomatic Framework of Integrated Information Theory (IIT)?

Sergio Ponce de Leon, Jeff Yoshimi

University of California, Merced, United States of America

Structural Representations Avoid Sceptical Conclusions in Active Inference

Joseph Philip Melling

Monash University, Australia

Disambiguating Consciousness: A Framework for Classifying Conscious Systems (2.0)

Andrew Proulx

University of California, Merced, United States of America

Why Is Phenomenal Consciousness So Hard to Dismiss? A Three-Perspective Analysis of Resistance to Illusionism

Can Du

University of Sheffield

The Feeling of Unfelt Pain:Insights from Replicated and Enhanced Experimental Philosophy Studies

Léa Moncoucy, Krzysztof Dołęga, Axel Cleeremans

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

On-off Synecdoche: a Just Good Enough Model of Subjective Experience

Mario Martinez-Saito

HSE University, Russian Federation

Unveiling The Elemental Hum Of Interoceptive Experience

Deborah Cocheo

Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America

The Unconscious Explicated

Daniel Lennart Müller

University of Osnabrück, Germany

Reformulation of the Inverted Qualia Argument and Its Experimental Test

Yu Togashi¹, Yuko Yotsumoto¹, Naotsugu Tsuchiya², Masafumi Oizumi¹

1: The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Perspectival Information: The Role of Consciousness in Self-location and Multisensory Integration

Miguel Ángel Sebastián

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Which Way Does the Intentional Stance Face: Biopsychism, Fictionalism, or Illusionism?

Simon Bowes, Adam Rostowski

University of Sussex, United Kingdom

The Blue is Sky: Color Qualia as Learned Associative Structures

Carlos Stein Brito^1,2

1: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown; 2: NightCity Labs

Compatibilist and Incompatibilist Illusionism

Anton Kuznetsov

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation

A Model to Demonstrate that Mental Entity Does Not Exist

Wenge Huang, Ou Xie

Independent Researcher, China, People's Republic of

Does a Simple Theory of Introspection Refute Illusionism about Qualia?

Evgeny Loginov

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation

Content Consciousness as an Acquired Cognition Entangled with Tool Evolution

Carsten Korth

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Structural Constraints To Compare Phenomenal Experience

Joaquin Díaz Boils¹, Nao Tsuchiya², Camilo Miguel Signorelli³

1: Universitat de Valencia, Spain; 2: Monash University, Australia; 3: University of Copenhagen, Denmark

What Is It Like To Be A Predictive Model?

Susan Blackmore

University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

Divergent Perception: A New Theoretical Foundation for the Study of Creative Cognition

Antoine Bellemare-Pepin^1,2, Karim Jerbi^1,3,4

1: Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada; 2: American and Indigenous Studies, Bard College, NY, USA; 3: UNIQUE Center (Quebec Neuro-AI Research Center), Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 4: MILA (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

External Noise Exclusion As A Potential Mechanism Of Load-Dependent Gradedness Of Scene Gist Perceptual Awareness Ratings

Suraj Kumar¹, Narayanan Srinivasan²

1: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India; 2: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Neutrality Doesn’t Exist: an EEG Study of Micro-valence

Inès Mentec, Guillaume Pech, Axel Cleeremans

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Modulating the Anterior Forebrain Mesocircuit Through Central Lateral Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation

Nicholas Schiff

Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine