PLoS Biology
July 1, 2025
Angus Leung, Ahmed A Mahmoud, Travis Jeans et al.
3 citations
The neural mechanisms of consciousness remain elusive. Previous studies on both human and non-human animals, through manipulation of level of conscious arousal, have reported that specific time-series features correlate with level of consciousness, such as spectral power in certain frequency bands. However, such features often lack principled, theoretical justifications as to why they should be...
PLoS Computational Biology
February 1, 2021
Angus Leung, Dror Cohen, Bruno van Swinderen et al.
The physical basis of consciousness remains one of the most elusive concepts in current science. One influential conjecture is that consciousness is to do with some form of causality, measurable through information. The integrated information theory of consciousness (IIT) proposes that conscious experience, filled with rich and specific content, corresponds directly to a hierarchically...
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
2021
Matthew N Van de Poll, Bruno van Swinderen
23 citations
The brain is a prediction machine. Yet the world is never entirely predictable, for any animal. Unexpected events are surprising, and this typically evokes prediction error signatures in mammalian brains. In humans such mismatched expectations are often associated with an emotional response as well, and emotional dysregulation can lead to cognitive disorders such as depression or schizophrenia....
The Journal of Comparative Neurology
May 3, 2020
Olivia Carter, Bruno van Swinderen, David A. Leopold et al.
29 citations
Abstract This review in memoriam of Jack Pettigrew provides an overview of past and current research into the phenomenon of multistable perception across multiple animal species. Multistable perception is characterized by two or more perceptual interpretations spontaneously alternating, or rivaling, when animals are exposed to stimuli with inherent sensory ambiguity. There is a wide array of...