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Giulio Tononi
Neuroscientist and integrated-information theorist
Also known as G. Tononi
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Who they are
Giulio Tononi is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist studying sleep and consciousness. He developed integrated information theory, which proposes a relationship between conscious experience and a system’s causal organization. He participated as an IIT proponent in the COGITATE collaboration that tested predictions against those of global neuronal workspace theory.
His profile connects a specific consciousness theory to an empirical comparison with a competing framework.
Selected contributions
Primary records
Academic paper · 2025 · Peer-reviewed article
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness
The COGITATE consortium compares preregistered predictions from integrated information and global neuronal workspace theories using three types of brain measurements. The results support and challenge different predictions without declaring a complete theory of consciousness.
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Biography sources & portrait credit
- Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness ↗Nature; full article in PubMed Central
- Giulio Tononi, MD, PhD ↗University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Psychiatry
Portrait credit
NIH. Public domain (U.S. federal government work). Via Wikimedia Commons.
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