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 …

Introduction Disorders of consciousness (DOC) has been an object of numbers of research
regarding the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis in last few decades. We believe that the …

Sleep has long been considered as a state of behavioral disconnection from the
environment, without reactivity to external stimuli. Here we questioned this 'sleep …

Summary The Computational Theory of Mind says that the mind is a computing system. It
has a long history going back to the idea that thought is a kind of computation. Its modern …

What happens in the human brain when we are unconscious? Despite substantial work, we
are still unsure which brain regions are involved and how they are impacted when …

Falling asleep is a dynamical process that is poorly defined. The period preceding sleep,
characterized by the progressive alteration of behavioral responses to the environment …

Background Decisions of withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy for patients with severe brain
injury are often based on prognostic evaluations such as analysis of …

During paradoxical sleep (PS, aka REM sleep) the cerebral cortex displays rapid
electroencephalographic activity similar to that of wakefulness, whereas in the posterior …

What is the common denominator of consciousness across divergent regimes of cortical
dynamics? Does consciousness show itself in decibels or in bits? To address these …

Background: The wakeful brain can easily access and coordinate a large repertoire of
different states—dynamics suggestive of “criticality.” Anesthesia causes loss of criticality at …