bioRxiv Preprint Server
December 9, 2025
Tomas Berjaga-Buisan, Juan Manuel Monti, Martina Cortada et al.
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The quest for reliable and objective measures of consciousness is critical in basic and clinical neuroscience. Across species, the Perturbational Complexity Index (PCI) has emerged as a robust empirical marker by directly perturbing the brain, yet its underlying principles of physics are not fully understood. Here, we bridge this gap by introducing a non-invasive framework based on generative...
PsyArXiv
November 26, 2025
Michele Farisco, Kathinka Evers, Jitka Annen et al.
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Significant advances in the scientific investigation of the neurobiology of consciousness have been slow to be translated into clinical settings, limited by factors of conceptual (e.g., what is consciousness?), methodological (e.g., how to identify reliable indicators of consciousness?), and technical (e.g., how to improve sensitivity and specificity of the technological identification of...
arXiv Preprint Archive
October 7, 2025
Maria V. Sanchez-Vives, Arnau Manasanch, Andrea Pigorini et al.
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The cerebral cortex spontaneously displays different patterns of activity that evolve over time according to the brain state. Sleep, wakefulness, resting states, and attention are examples of a wide spectrum of physiological states that can be sustained by the same structural network. Furthermore, additional states are generated by drugs (e.g., different levels of anesthesia) or by pathological...
Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Mel Slater, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives
The prevailing scientific paradigm is that matter is primary and everything, including consciousness can be derived from the laws governing matter. Although the scientific explanation of consciousness on these lines has not been realized, in this view it is only a matter of time before consciousness will be explained through neurobiological activity in the brain, and nothing else. There is an...