Consciousness

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Abellaneda-Pérez, K., Potash, R. M., Pascual-Leone, A., & Sacchet, M. D. (2024). Neuromodulation and meditation: A review and synthesis toward promoting well-being and understanding consciousness and brain. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105862

Baetu, T. M. (2024). Informational models of the phenomenon of consciousness and the mechanistic project in neuroscience. Erkenntnis, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-024-00792-w

Bisiach, E. (2020). The neuropsychological approach to consciousness . In Handbook of clinical and experimental neuropsychology (pp. 671-686). Psychology Press.

Blum, L., & Blum, M. (2022). A theory of consciousness from a theoretical computer science perspective: Insights from the Conscious Turing Machine. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(21), e2115934119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115934119

Blumenfeld, H. (2023). Brain mechanisms of conscious awareness: detect, pulse, switch, and wave. The Neuroscientist, 29(1), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/10738584211049378

Butlin, P., Long, R., Elmoznino, E., Bengio, Y., Birch, J., Constant, A., ... & VanRullen, R. (2023). Consciousness in artificial intelligence: insights from the science of consciousness. arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.08708. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.08708

Cecconi, B., van der Lande, G., & Sala, A. (2024). Neural correlates of consciousness. In Schnakers, C., Laureys, S. (eds) Coma and disorders of consciousness (pp. 1-15). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50563-8_1

Chalmers, D., Seth, A. & Greene, B. (2024). What creates consciousness? (45:44 minutes). [video]. World Science Festival.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06-iq-0yJNM&ab_channel=WorldScienceFestival

Ciaunica, A., Safron, A., Delafield-Butt, J. (2021). Back to square one: the bodily roots of conscious experiences in early life. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab037, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab037

Cogitate Consortium, Ferrante, O., Gorska-Klimowska, U., Henin, S., Hirschhorn, R., Khalaf, A., ... & Melloni, L. (2023). An adversarial collaboration to critically evaluate theories of consciousness. BioRxiv, 2023-06. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.23.546249; t

Cofré,  et al., 2020. Whole-brain models to explore altered states of consciousness from the bottom up. Brain Sciences, 10(9), 626. Doi.org_10.3390_brainsci10090626

Damasio, A. (2021). Feeling & knowing: Making minds conscious. Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(2), 65-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2020.1846027

Damasio, A. (2020). Feeling and consciousness (15:57 minutes). [video] MindBrain Summit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilrelFkDYls&ab_channel=BrainMindSummit

Damasio, A. (2012). The quest to understand consciousness (18:42 minutes). [TedTalk video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMrzdk_YnYY&t=79s&ab_channel=TED

Deane, G. (2021). Consciousness in active inference: Deep self-models, other minds, and the challenge of psychedelic-induced ego-dissolution. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab024, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab024

Dehaene, S., Lau, H., & Kouider, S. (2021). What is consciousness, and could machines have it?. In J. von Braun et al. (eds.), Robotics, AI, and humanity: Science, ethics, and policy, (pp.43-56). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54173-6_4

Doerig, A., Schurger, A., & Herzog, M. H. (2021). Hard criteria for empirical theories of consciousness. Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(2), 41-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2020.1772214

Doradzińska, Ł., & Bola, M. (2024). Early electrophysiological correlates of perceptual consciousness are affected by both exogenous and endogenous attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36(7), 1297-1324. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02156

Economist, The. (2015). What is consciousness? (12:42 minutes). [Video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir8XITVmeY4&ab_channel=TheEconomist

Evers, K., Farisco, M., & Pennartz, C. M. A. (2024). Assessing the commensurability of theories of consciousness: On the usefulness of common denominators in differentiating, integrating and testing hypotheses. Consciousness and Cognition, 119, 103668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103668

Fingelkurts, A. A., & Fingelkurts, A. A. (2023). Patients with disorders of consciousness: Are they nonconscious, unconscious, or subconscious? Expanding the Discussion. Brain Sciences, 13(5), 814. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13050814

Fukuta, J., & Yamashita, J. (2023). The complex relationship between conscious/unconscious learning and conscious/unconscious knowledge: The mediating effects of salience in form–meaning connections. Second Language Research, 39(2), 425-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583211044950

Greenfield (Baroness), S.(2012). The neuroscience of consciousness (1:34:17 minutes). [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ZTNmkIiBc&ab_channel=TheUniversityofMelbourne

Gunamuktananda, D. (2014). Consciousness -- the final frontier (18:32 minutes) [TEDxNoosa video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0X2ZdElQ4&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

Hunt, T., Jones, M., McFadden, J., Delorme, A., Hales, C. G., Ericson, M., & Schooler, J. (2024). Electromagnetic field theories of consciousness: opportunities and obstacles. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 1342634. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1342634

Hviid Del Pin, S., Skóra, Z., Sandberg, K., Overgaard, M., Wierzchoń, M. (2021). Comparing theories of consciousness: why it matters and how to do it.  Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab019, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab019

Ivanchei, I., Coucke, N., & Cleeremans, A. (2023). Dissociation between conscious and unconscious processes as a criterion for sentience. Animal Sentience, 8(33), 25.

Kanai, R., & Fujisawa, I. (2024). Toward a universal theory of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024(1), niae022. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niae022

Kent, L., & Wittmann, M. (2021). Time consciousness: the missing link in theories of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab011. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab011

Keppler, J. (2024). Laying the foundations for a theory of consciousness: the significance of critical brain dynamics for the formation of conscious states. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18, 1379191. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1379191

Khosla, R., & Patra, S. (2024). Neurobiology of consciousness: Neuroscience and ancient perspectives. In Anand, A. (ed). Neuroscience of yoga (pp. 275-291). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2855-8_14 

Kirkeby-Hinrup, A. (2024). Quantifying empirical support for theories of consciousness: a tentative methodological framework. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1341430. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1341430

Kozuch, B. (2024). Better bridges: Integrating the neuroscience and philosophy of consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 126, 103774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103774

Krickel, B. (2023). The unconscious mind worry: A mechanistic-explanatory strategy. Philosophy of Science, 90(1), 39-59. https://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1816

Kukkonen, K. (2024). Designs on consciousness: literature and predictive processing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379(1895), 20220423. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0423

Layton, L. (2020). Toward a social psychoanalysis: Culture, character, and normative unconscious processes . Routledge.

List, C. (2024). A quadrilemma for theories of consciousness. The Philosophical Quarterly, pqae053. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae053

Ludwig, D. (2023). The functions of consciousness in visual processing. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2023(1), niac018. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niac018

Luppi, A. I., Mediano, P. A., Rosas, F. E., Allanson, J., Pickard, J. D., Williams, G. B., ... & Stamatakis, E. A. (2022). Whole-brain modelling identifies distinct but convergent paths to unconsciousness in anaesthesia and disorders of consciousness. Communications Biology, 5(1), 384. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03330-y

Malach, R. (2021). Local neuronal relational structures underlying the contents of human conscious experience. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab028, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab028

Marchi, F., & Hohwy, J. (2020). The intermediate scope of consciousness in the predictive mind.  Erkenntnis, 1-22.

Marvan, T. Polák, M. Bachmann, T., Phillips, W.A., (2021). Apical amplification—a cellular mechanism of conscious perception?, Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2),  niab036, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab036

Mashour, G. A., Roelfsema, P., Changeux, J. P., & Dehaene, S. (2020). Conscious processing and the global neuronal workspace hypothesis. Neuron, 105(5), 776-798. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.026

McFadden, J. (2020). Integrating information in the brain’s EM field: the cemi field theory of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2020(1), niaa016. https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2020/1/niaa016/5909853

Melloni, L., Ferrante, O., Gorska-Klimowska, U., Henin, S., Hirschhorn, R., Khalaf, A., & Lepauvre, A. et al. (2023). An adversarial collaboration to critically evaluate theories of consciousness. Biological Sciences preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3101836/v1

Merker, B., Williford, K., & Rudrauf, D. (2022). The integrated information theory of consciousness: A case of mistaken identity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e41. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21000881

Mograbi, D. C., Hall, S., Arantes, B., & Huntley, J. (2024). The cognitive neuroscience of self‐awareness: Current framework, clinical implications, and future research directions. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 15(2), e1670. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1670

Mudrik, L., Boly, M., Dehaene, S., Fleming, S. M., Lamme, V., Seth, A., & Melloni, L. (2025). Unpacking the complexities of consciousness: Theories and reflections. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 106053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106053

Northoff, G., & Lamme, V. (2020). Neural signs and mechanisms of consciousness: Is there a potential convergence of theories of consciousness in sight?. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 118, 568-587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.07.019

Northoff, G., & Zilio, F. (2022). Temporo-spatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC)–Bridging the gap of neuronal activity and phenomenal states. Behavioural Brain Research, 424, 113788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2022.113788

Oxford University Scientific Society. (2021). Mind shift: How culture transformed the human brain with Prof John Parrington. [video] (56:56 minutes). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw5E6swv3zI&ab_channel=OxfordUniversityScientificSociety

Pally, R., & Olds, D. D. (2024). Consciousness: A neuroscience perspective 1. In Explorations between psychoanalysis and neuroscience (pp. 117-141). Routledge. eBook ISBN9781003399551

Panagiotaropoulos, T. I., Wang, L., & Dehaene, S. (2020). Hierarchical architecture of conscious processing and subjective experience. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 37(3-4), 180-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1760811

Pérez, P., Manasova, D., Hermann, B., Raimondo, F., Rohaut, B., Bekinschtein, T. A., ... & Sitt, J. D. (2024). Content–state dimensions characterize different types of neuronal markers of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024(1), niae027. Pérez, P., Manasova, D., Hermann, B., Raimondo, F., Rohaut, B., Bekinschtein, T. A., ... & Sitt, J. D. (2024). Content–state dimensions characterize different types of neuronal markers of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024(1), niae027.

Poznanski, R. R. (2024). The dynamic organicity theory of consciousness: how consciousness arises from the functionality of multiscale complexity in the material brain. Journal of Multiscale Neuroscience, 3, 68-87. https://doi.org/10.56280/1609121701

Redinbaugh, M. J., Phillips, J. M., Kambi, N. A., Mohanta, S., Andryk, S., Dooley, G. L., ... & Saalmann, Y. B. (2020). Thalamus modulates consciousness via layer-specific control of cortex.  Neuron.

Rorot, W. (2021). Bayesian theories of consciousness: a review in search for a minimal unifying model. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab038, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab038

Sanchez, G., Hartmann, T., Fuscà, M., Demarchi, G., & Weisz, N. (2020). Decoding across sensory modalities reveals common supramodal signatures of conscious perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(13), 7437-7446. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912584117

Sarasso, S. Girardi Casali, A., Casarotto, S., Rosanova, M., Sinigaglia, C., Massimini, M. (2021). Consciousness and complexity: a consilience of evidence. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab023. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab023

Seal, J. (2013). Consciousness and the brain (15:50 minutes). [TedTalk video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_OPQgPIdKg&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

Segura, P. L., & Alonso, T. O. (2024). What we are for us, what we are for others: Consciousness and Identity. In The theory of mind under scrutiny: Psychopathology, neuroscience, philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence (pp. 369-433). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46742-4_12

Shermer, M. (2021). Understanding consciousness with Antonio Damasio (a:42:09). [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bkVQWVBHWQ&ab_channel=Skeptic

Simone Sarasso, Adenauer Girardi Casali, Silvia Casarotto, Mario Rosanova, Corrado Sinigaglia, Marcello Massimini, Consciousness and complexity: a consilience of evidence, Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2021, Issue 2, 2021, niab023, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab023Seth, A. K., & Bayne, T. (2022). Theories of consciousness. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 23(7), 439-452. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-022-00587-4

Signorelli, C.M., Szczotka, J., Prentner, R. (2021). Explanatory profiles of models of consciousness - towards a systematic classification. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab021 https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab021

Singhal, I., & Srinivasan, N. (2021). Time and time again: a multi-scale hierarchical framework for time-consciousness and timing of cognition. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab020. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab020

Smallwood, J., Turnbull, A., Wang, H. T., Ho, N. S., Poerio, G. L., Karapanagiotidis, T., ... & Jefferies, E. (2021). The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought. Iscience, 24(3). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102132

Snider, S. B., Hsu, J., Darby, R. R., Cooke, D., Fischer, D., Cohen, A. L., ... & Fox, M. D. (2020). Cortical lesions causing loss of consciousness are anticorrelated with the dorsal brainstem . Human Brain Mapping.

Solms, M. (2021). The source of consciousness (1:04:00). [video] The Royal Institute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmuYrnOVmfk&ab_channel=TheRoyalInstitution

Solms, M. & Fuchs, T. (2022). The hard problem of consciousness (2:12:00) [video].Horst Kächele Memorial Webinar Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDcBNepVfSo&ab_channel=IPUBerlin

Storm, J. F., Klink, P. C., Aru, J., Senn, W., Goebel, R., Pigorini, A., ... & Pennartz, C. M. (2024). An integrative, multiscale view on neural theories of consciousness. Neuron, 112(10), 1531-1552. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.02.004

Tsuchiya, N.  & Hayato Saigo (2021). A relational approach to consciousness: categories of level and contents of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab034. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab034

Vernet, M., Quentin, R., Japee, S., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2020). From visual awareness to consciousness without sensory input: The role of spontaneous brain activity . Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1-4.

Walter, J. (2021). Consciousness as a multidimensional phenomenon: implications for the assessment of disorders of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab047. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab047

Watchus, B. (2024). Towards self-aware AI: Embodiment, feedback loops, and the role of the insula in consciousness. Preprints. Org.

Yaron, I., Zeevi, Y., Korisky, U., Marshall, W., & Mudrik, L. (2024). Progressing, not regressing: A possible solution to the problem of regression to the mean in unconscious processing studies. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(1), 49-64. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02326-x

Yurchenko, S. B. (2024). Panpsychism and dualism in the science of consciousness. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105845

Zhang, X. (2024). Triple definition or explanation of consciousness.  

Zhuo, M. (2024). Cortical synaptic basis of consciousness. European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(5), 796-806.  https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16198

Other Resources

Big Think. (2023). Is consciousness an illusion? 5 experts explain (43:52 minutes). [video]. Dispatches from the well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjmPvovl-V4&ab_channel=BigThink

Damasio, A. & Siegel, D. (2024). Antonio Damasio and Dan Siegel - Mind, consciousness, the body, and relationships (42:01 minutes). [video] MindBrain Summit, Stanford University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85zFp0bYe1Y&ab_channel=BrainMindSummit

Economist, The. What is consciousness? (12:42 minutes). [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir8XITVmeY4&t=31s&ab_channel=TheEconomist

Pinker, S. & Sadhguru. (2023). (1:50:00) Is Consciousness a Miracle? | Harvard’s Cognitive Scientist Prof. Steven Pinker & Sadhguru [video]. Sadhguru. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCGDQPZYmQM&ab_channel=Sadhguru

Solms, M. (2021). The source of consciousness (1:04:00 minutes). [video] The Royal Institution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmuYrnOVmfk&ab_channel=TheRoyalInstitution

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