When does the mind begin? Infant psychology is mysterious in part because we cannot
remember our first months of life, nor can we directly communicate with infants. Even more …

Neural complexity correlates with one's level of consciousness. During coma, anesthesia,
and sleep, complexity is reduced. During altered states, including after lysergic acid …

Nonoscillatory measures of brain activity such as the spectral slope and Lempel–Ziv
complexity are affected by many neurological disorders and modulated by sleep. A multitude …

Schizophrenia and states induced by certain psychotomimetic drugs may share some
physiological and phenomenological properties, but they differ in fundamental ways: one is …

Quantifying the complexity of neural activity has provided fundamental insights into
cognition, consciousness, and clinical conditions. However, the most widely used approach …

Abstract Characterization of brain states is essential for understanding its functioning in the
absence of external stimuli. Brain states differ on their balance between excitation and …

The complexity of neural activity is a commonly used readout of healthy functioning in
cortical circuits. Previous work has linked neural complexity to the level of maternal care in …

There is increasing evidence that the level of consciousness can be captured by neural
informational complexity: for instance, complexity, as measured by the Lempel Ziv (LZ) …

Abstract Characterization of cortical states is essential for understanding brain functioning in
the absence of external stimuli. The balance between excitation and inhibition and the …

The level of alertness fluctuates throughout the day, exerting modulatory effects on human
cognitive processes at any moment. However, our knowledge of how alertness level …