Cellular mechanisms of conscious processing

J Aru, M Suzuki, ME Larkum - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Recent breakthroughs in neurobiology indicate that the time is ripe to understand how
cellular-level mechanisms are related to conscious experience. Here, we highlight the …

The secret life of predictive brains: what's spontaneous activity for?

G Pezzulo, M Zorzi, M Corbetta - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Brains at rest generate dynamical activity that is highly structured in space and time. We
suggest that spontaneous activity, as in rest or dreaming, underlies top-down dynamics of …

How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis

M Suzuki, CMA Pennartz, J Aru - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Deep learning and predictive coding architectures commonly assume that inference in
neural networks is hierarchical. However, largely neglected in deep learning and predictive …

Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality

N Dijkstra, P Kok, SM Fleming - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
There is increasing evidence that imagination relies on similar neural mechanisms as
externally triggered perception. This overlap presents a challenge for perceptual reality …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative, multiscale view on neural theories of consciousness

JF Storm, PC Klink, J Aru, W Senn, R Goebel… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
How is conscious experience related to material brain processes? A variety of theories
aiming to answer this age-old question have emerged from the recent surge in …

Consciousness and sleep

G Tononi, M Boly, C Cirelli - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Sleep is a universal, essential biological process. It is also an invaluable window on
consciousness. It tells us that consciousness can be lost but also that it can be regained, in …

Different mechanisms for supporting mental imagery and perceptual representations: modulation versus excitation

T Pace, R Koenig-Robert… - Psychological Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research suggests imagery is functionally equivalent to a weak form of visual
perception. Here we report evidence across five independent experiments on adults that …

Learning cortical representations through perturbed and adversarial dreaming

N Deperrois, MA Petrovici, W Senn, J Jordan - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Humans and other animals learn to extract general concepts from sensory experience
without extensive teaching. This ability is thought to be facilitated by offline states like sleep …

Dendritic integration theory: a thalamo-cortical theory of state and content of consciousness

T Bachmann, M Suzuki, J Aru - Philosophy and the …, 2020 - philosophymindscience.org
The idea that the thalamo-cortical system is the crucial constituent of the neurobiological
mechanisms of consciousness has a long history. For the last few decades, however …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic causal modelling of auditory surprise during disconnected consciousness: the role of feedback connectivity

CP Casey, S Tanabe, Z Farahbakhsh, M Parker, A Bo… - Neuroimage, 2022 - Elsevier
The neural mechanisms through which individuals lose sensory awareness of their
environment during anesthesia remains poorly understood despite being of vital importance …