Integrated information theory: From consciousness to its physical substrate

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 450-461

  Tononi, Giulio ^a   Boly, Melanie ^a   Massimini, Marcello ^b,c   Koch, Christof ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^d ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; FIRING RATE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; OPTOGENETICS; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84970004140     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2016.44     Document Type: Review

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