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Onoda K, Akama H. Exploring complex and integrated information during sleep. Neurosci Conscious 2024; 2024:niae029. [PMID: 38974800 PMCID: PMC11227102 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niae029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2023] [Revised: 06/11/2024] [Accepted: 06/19/2024] [Indexed: 07/09/2024] Open
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The Integrated Information Theory is a theoretical framework that aims to elucidate the nature of consciousness by postulating that it emerges from the integration of information within a system, and that the degree of consciousness depends on the extent of information integration within the system. When consciousness is lost, the core complex of consciousness proposed by the Integrated Information Theory disintegrates, and Φ measures, which reflect the level of integrated information, are expected to diminish. This study examined the predictions of the Integrated Information Theory using the global brain network acquired via functional magnetic resonance imaging during various tasks and sleep. We discovered that the complex located within the frontoparietal network remained constant regardless of task content, while the regional distribution of the complex collapsed in the initial stages of sleep. Furthermore, Φ measures decreased as sleep progressed under limited analysis conditions. These findings align with predictions made by the Integrated Information Theory and support its postulates.
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- Keiichi Onoda
- Department of Psychology, Otemon Gakuin University, 2-1-15, Nishiai, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8502, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1, Ookayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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Gonçalves ÓF, Sayal J, Lisboa F, Palhares P. The experimental study of consciousness: Is psychology travelling back to the future? Int J Clin Health Psychol 2024; 24:100475. [PMID: 39021679 PMCID: PMC11253270 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/29/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024] Open
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It was with the promise of rendering an experimental approach to consciousness that psychology started its trajectory as an independent science more than 150 years ago. Here, we will posit that the neurosciences were instrumental in leading psychology to resume the study of consciousness by projecting an empirical agenda for the future. First, we will start by showing how scientists were able to venture into the consciousness of supposedly unconscious patients, opening the door for the identification of important neural correlates of distinct consciousness states. Then, we will describe how different technological advances and elegant experimental paradigms helped in establishing important neuronal correlates of global consciousness (i.e., being conscious at all), perceptual consciousness (i.e., being conscious of something), and self-consciousness (i.e., being conscious of itself). Finally, we will illustrate how the study of complex consciousness experiences may contribute to the clarification of the mechanisms associated with global consciousness, the relationship between perceptual and self-consciousness, and the interface among distinct self-consciousness domains. In closing, we will elaborate on the road ahead of us for re-establishing psychology as a science of consciousness.
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- Proaction Lab – CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Colégio de Jesus, R. Inácio Duarte 65, Coimbra 3000-481, Portugal
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- Proaction Lab – CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Colégio de Jesus, R. Inácio Duarte 65, Coimbra 3000-481, Portugal
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- Proaction Lab – CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Colégio de Jesus, R. Inácio Duarte 65, Coimbra 3000-481, Portugal
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Cardone P, Alnagger N, Annen J, Bicego A, Gosseries O, Martial C. Psychedelics and disorders of consciousness: the current landscape and the path forward. Neurosci Conscious 2024; 2024:niae025. [PMID: 38881630 PMCID: PMC11179162 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niae025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Revised: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024] Open
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Modern medicine has been shaken by the surge of psychedelic science that proposes a new approach to mitigate mental disorders, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Clinical trials to investigate whether psychedelic substances can treat psychiatric conditions are now underway, yet less discussion gravitates around their use in neurological disorders due to brain injury. One suggested implementation of brain-complexity enhancing psychedelics is to treat people with post-comatose disorders of consciousness (DoC). In this article, we discuss the rationale of this endeavour, examining possible outcomes of such experiments by postulating the existence of an optimal level of complexity. We consider the possible counterintuitive effects of both psychedelics and DoC on the functional connectivity of the default mode network and its possible impact on selfhood. We also elaborate on the role of computational modelling in providing complementary information to experimental studies, both contributing to our understanding of the treatment mechanisms and providing a path towards personalized medicine. Finally, we update the discourse surrounding the ethical considerations, encompassing clinical and scientific values.
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- Paolo Cardone
- Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
- Centre du Cerveau2, University Hospital of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
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- Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
- Centre du Cerveau2, University Hospital of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
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- Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
- Centre du Cerveau2, University Hospital of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
- Department of Data Analysis, University of Ghent, Henri Dunantlaan 1, Ghent 9000, Belgium
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- Sensation and Perception Research Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
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- Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
- Centre du Cerveau2, University Hospital of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
- Sensation and Perception Research Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
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- Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
- Centre du Cerveau2, University Hospital of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, Liège 4000, Belgium
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Chis-Ciure R, Melloni L, Northoff G. A measure centrality index for systematic empirical comparison of consciousness theories. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 161:105670. [PMID: 38615851 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2024] [Revised: 03/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
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Consciousness science is marred by disparate constructs and methodologies, making it challenging to systematically compare theories. This foundational crisis casts doubts on the scientific character of the field itself. Addressing it, we propose a framework for systematically comparing consciousness theories by introducing a novel inter-theory classification interface, the Measure Centrality Index (MCI). Recognizing its gradient distribution, the MCI assesses the degree of importance a specific empirical measure has for a given consciousness theory. We apply the MCI to probe how the empirical measures of the Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNW), Integrated Information Theory (IIT), and Temporospatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC) would fare within the context of the other two. We demonstrate that direct comparison of IIT, GNW, and TTC is meaningful and valid for some measures like Lempel-Ziv Complexity (LZC), Autocorrelation Window (ACW), and possibly Mutual Information (MI). In contrast, it is problematic for others like the anatomical and physiological neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) due to their MCI-based differential weightings within the structure of the theories. In sum, we introduce and provide proof-of-principle of a novel systematic method for direct inter-theory empirical comparisons, thereby addressing isolated evolution of theories and confirmatory bias issues in the state-of-the-art neuroscience of consciousness.
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- Robert Chis-Ciure
- New York University (NYU), New York, USA; International Center for Neuroscience and Ethics (CINET), Tatiana Foundation, Madrid, Spain; Wolfram Physics Project, USA.
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- Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- University of Ottawa, Institute of Mental Health Research at the Royal Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada
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Nilsen AS, Arena A, Storm JF. Exploring effects of anesthesia on complexity, differentiation, and integrated information in rat EEG. Neurosci Conscious 2024; 2024:niae021. [PMID: 38757120 PMCID: PMC11097907 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niae021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Revised: 04/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
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To investigate mechanisms underlying loss of consciousness, it is important to extend methods established in humans to rodents as well. Perturbational complexity index (PCI) is a promising metric of "capacity for consciousness" and is based on a perturbational approach that allows inferring a system's capacity for causal integration and differentiation of information. These properties have been proposed as necessary for conscious systems. Measures based on spontaneous electroencephalography recordings, however, may be more practical for certain clinical purposes and may better reflect ongoing dynamics. Here, we compare PCI (using electrical stimulation for perturbing cortical activity) to several spontaneous electroencephalography-based measures of signal diversity and integrated information in rats undergoing propofol, sevoflurane, and ketamine anesthesia. We find that, along with PCI, the spontaneous electroencephalography-based measures, Lempel-Ziv complexity (LZ) and geometric integrated information (ΦG), were best able to distinguish between awake and propofol and sevoflurane anesthesia. However, PCI was anti-correlated with spontaneous measures of integrated information, which generally increased during propofol and sevoflurane anesthesia, contrary to expectations. Together with an observed divergence in network properties estimated from directed functional connectivity (current results) and effective connectivity (earlier results), the perturbation-based results seem to suggest that anesthesia disrupts global cortico-cortical information transfer, whereas spontaneous activity suggests the opposite. We speculate that these seemingly diverging results may be because of suppressed encoding specificity of information or driving subcortical projections from, e.g., the thalamus. We conclude that certain perturbation-based measures (PCI) and spontaneous measures (LZ and ΦG) may be complementary and mutually informative when studying altered states of consciousness.
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- André Sevenius Nilsen
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Sognsvannsveien 9, Oslo 0372, Norway
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Sognsvannsveien 9, Oslo 0372, Norway
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Sognsvannsveien 9, Oslo 0372, Norway
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Joo P, Kim M, Kish B, Nair VV, Tong Y, Liu Z, O'Brien ARW, Harte SE, Harris RE, Lee U, Wang Y. Brain network hypersensitivity underlies pain crises in sickle cell disease. Sci Rep 2024; 14:7315. [PMID: 38538687 PMCID: PMC10973361 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-57473-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic disorder causing painful and unpredictable Vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs) through blood vessel blockages. In this study, we propose explosive synchronization (ES) as a novel approach to comprehend the hypersensitivity and occurrence of VOCs in the SCD brain network. We hypothesized that the accumulated disruptions in the brain network induced by SCD might lead to strengthened ES and hypersensitivity. We explored ES's relationship with patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) as well as VOCs by analyzing EEG data from 25 SCD patients and 18 matched controls. SCD patients exhibited lower alpha frequency than controls. SCD patients showed correlation between frequency disassortativity (FDA), an ES condition, and three important PROMs. Furthermore, stronger FDA was observed in SCD patients with a higher frequency of VOCs and EEG recording near VOC. We also conducted computational modeling on SCD brain network to study FDA's role in network sensitivity. Our model demonstrated that a stronger FDA could be linked to increased sensitivity and frequency of VOCs. This study establishes connections between SCD pain and the universal network mechanism, ES, offering a strong theoretical foundation. This understanding will aid predicting VOCs and refining pain management for SCD patients.
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- Pangyu Joo
- Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Consciousness Science, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Michigan Psychedelic Center, University of Michigan, Arbor Lakes Building 1 Suite 2200, 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Consciousness Science, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Michigan Psychedelic Center, University of Michigan, Arbor Lakes Building 1 Suite 2200, 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, and Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, School of Medicine, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Consciousness Science, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Michigan Psychedelic Center, University of Michigan, Arbor Lakes Building 1 Suite 2200, 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA.
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
- Department of Anesthesia, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Stark Neuroscience Building, Rm# 514E, 320 West 15th Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
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Maschke C, O'Byrne J, Colombo MA, Boly M, Gosseries O, Laureys S, Rosanova M, Jerbi K, Blain-Moraes S. Criticality of resting-state EEG predicts perturbational complexity and level of consciousness during anesthesia. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.10.26.564247. [PMID: 37994368 PMCID: PMC10664178 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.26.564247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2023]
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Consciousness has been proposed to be supported by electrophysiological patterns poised at criticality, a dynamical regime which exhibits adaptive computational properties, maximally complex patterns and divergent sensitivity to perturbation. Here, we investigated dynamical properties of the resting-state electroencephalogram of healthy subjects undergoing general anesthesia with propofol, xenon or ketamine. We then studied the relation of these dynamic properties with the perturbational complexity index (PCI), which has shown remarkably high sensitivity in detecting consciousness independent of behavior. All participants were unresponsive under anesthesia, while consciousness was retained only during ketamine anesthesia (in the form of vivid dreams)., enabling an experimental dissociation between unresponsiveness and unconsciousness. We estimated (i) avalanche criticality, (ii) chaoticity, and (iii) criticality-related measures, and found that states of unconsciousness were characterized by a distancing from both the edge of activity propagation and the edge of chaos. We were then able to predict individual subjects' PCI (i.e., PCImax) with a mean absolute error below 7%. Our results establish a firm link between the PCI and criticality and provide further evidence for the role of criticality in the emergence of consciousness.
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- Charlotte Maschke
- Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada
- Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Québec, Canada
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- Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Québec, Canada
- MILA (Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute), Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Neurology and Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Coma Science Group, GIGA Consciousness, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- Centre du cerveau, CHU of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Coma Science Group, GIGA Consciousness, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- CERVO Brain Research Centre, Laval University, Canada
- Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Québec, Canada
- MILA (Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute), Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Centre UNIQUE (Union Neurosciences & Intelligence Artificielle), Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada
- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Joo P, Kim M, Kish B, Nair VV, Tong Y, Harte SE, Harris RE, Lee U, Wang Y. Brain network hypersensitivity underlies pain crises in sickle cell disease. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2023:2023.10.08.23296715. [PMID: 37873459 PMCID: PMC10593022 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.08.23296715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic disorder causing blood vessel blockages and painful Vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs). VOCs, characterized by severe pain due to blocked blood flow, are recurrent and unpredictable, posing challenges for preventive strategies. In this study we propose explosive synchronization (ES), a phenomenon characterized by abrupt brain network phase transitions, as a novel approach to address this challenge. We hypothesized that the accumulated disruptions in the brain network induced by SCD might lead to strengthened ES and hypersensitivity. We explored ES's relationship with patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) and VOCs by analyzing EEG data from 25 SCD patients and 18 matched controls. SCD patients exhibited significantly lower alpha wave frequency than controls. SCD patients under painful pressure stimulation showed correlation between frequency disassortativity (FDA), an ES condition, and three important PROMs. Furthermore, patients who had a higher frequency of VOCs in the preceding 12 months presented with stronger FDA. The timing of VOC occurrence relative to EEG recordings was significantly associated to FDA. We also conducted computational modeling on SCD brain network to study FDA's role in network sensitivity. Stronger FDA correlated with higher responsivity and complexity in our model. Simulation under noisy environment showed that higher FDA could be linked to increased occurrence frequency of crisis. This study establishes connections between SCD pain and the universal network mechanism, ES, offering a strong theoretical foundation. This understanding will aid predicting VOCs and refining pain management for SCD patients.
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Sanfey J. Simultaneity of consciousness with physical reality: the key that unlocks the mind-matter problem. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1173653. [PMID: 37842692 PMCID: PMC10568466 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1173653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/17/2023] Open
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The problem of explaining the relationship between subjective experience and physical reality remains difficult and unresolved. In most explanations, consciousness is epiphenomenal, without causal power. The most notable exception is Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which provides a causal explanation for consciousness. However, IIT relies on an identity between subjectivity and a particular type of physical structure, namely with an information structure that has intrinsic causal power greater than the sum of its parts. Any theory that relies on a psycho-phyiscal identity must eventually appeal to panpsychism, which undermines that theory's claim to be fundamental. IIT has recently pivoted towards a strong version of causal emergence, but macroscopic structures cannot be stronger causally than their microphysical parts without some new physical law or governing principle. The approach taken here is designed to uncover such a principle. The decisive argument is entirely deductive from initial premises that are phenomenologically certain. If correct, the arguments prove that conscious experience is sufficient to create additional degrees of causal freedom independently of the content of experience, and in a manner that is unpredictable and unobservable by any temporally sequential means. This provides a fundamental principle about consciousness, and a conceptual bridge between it and the physics describing what is experienced. The principle makes testable predictions about brain function, with notable differences from IIT, some of which are also empirically testable.
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Veyrié A, Noreña A, Sarrazin JC, Pezard L. Information-Theoretic Approaches in EEG Correlates of Auditory Perceptual Awareness under Informational Masking. BIOLOGY 2023; 12:967. [PMID: 37508397 PMCID: PMC10376775 DOI: 10.3390/biology12070967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Revised: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
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In informational masking paradigms, the successful segregation between the target and masker creates auditory perceptual awareness. The dynamics of the build-up of auditory perception is based on a set of interactions between bottom-up and top-down processes that generate neuronal modifications within the brain network activity. These neural changes are studied here using event-related potentials (ERPs), entropy, and integrated information, leading to several measures applied to electroencephalogram signals. The main findings show that the auditory perceptual awareness stimulated functional activation in the fronto-temporo-parietal brain network through (i) negative temporal and positive centro-parietal ERP components; (ii) an enhanced processing of multi-information in the temporal cortex; and (iii) an increase in informational content in the fronto-central cortex. These different results provide information-based experimental evidence about the functional activation of the fronto-temporo-parietal brain network during auditory perceptual awareness.
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- Alexandre Veyrié
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 7291), Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Aix-Marseille Université, 13331 Marseille, France
- ONERA, The French Aerospace Lab, 13300 Salon de Provence, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 7291), Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Aix-Marseille Université, 13331 Marseille, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 7291), Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Aix-Marseille Université, 13331 Marseille, France
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Walter N, Meinersen-Schmidt N, Kulla P, Loew T, Kruse J, Hinterberger T. Sensory-Processing Sensitivity Is Associated with Increased Neural Entropy. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 25:890. [PMID: 37372234 DOI: 10.3390/e25060890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND This study aimed at answering the following research questions: (1) Does the self-reported level of sensory-processing sensitivity (SPS) correlate with complexity, or criticality features of the electroencephalogram (EEG)? (2) Are there significant EEG differences comparing individuals with high and low levels of SPS? METHODS One hundred fifteen participants were measured with 64-channel EEG during a task-free resting state. The data were analyzed using criticality theory tools (detrended fluctuation analysis, neuronal avalanche analysis) and complexity measures (sample entropy, Higuchi's fractal dimension). Correlations with the 'Highly Sensitive Person Scale' (HSPS-G) scores were determined. Then, the cohort's lowest and the highest 30% were contrasted as opposites. EEG features were compared between the two groups by applying a Wilcoxon signed-rank test. RESULTS During resting with eyes open, HSPS-G scores correlated significantly positively with the sample entropy and Higuchi's fractal dimension (Spearman's ρ = 0.22, p < 0.05). The highly sensitive group revealed higher sample entropy values (1.83 ± 0.10 vs. 1.77 ± 0.13, p = 0.031). The increased sample entropy in the highly sensitive group was most pronounced in the central, temporal, and parietal regions. CONCLUSION For the first time, neurophysiological complexity features associated with SPS during a task-free resting state were demonstrated. Evidence is provided that neural processes differ between low- and highly-sensitive persons, whereby the latter displayed increased neural entropy. The findings support the central theoretical assumption of enhanced information processing and could be important for developing biomarkers for clinical diagnostics.
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- Nike Walter
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, 93059 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department for Clinical Psychology and Trauma Therapy, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany
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- Department for Clinical Psychology and Trauma Therapy, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, 93059 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department for Clinical Psychology and Trauma Therapy, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, 93059 Regensburg, Germany
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Yurchenko SB. A systematic approach to brain dynamics: cognitive evolution theory of consciousness. Cogn Neurodyn 2023; 17:575-603. [PMID: 37265655 PMCID: PMC10229528 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-022-09863-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2022] [Revised: 06/29/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The brain integrates volition, cognition, and consciousness seamlessly over three hierarchical (scale-dependent) levels of neural activity for their emergence: a causal or 'hard' level, a computational (unconscious) or 'soft' level, and a phenomenal (conscious) or 'psyche' level respectively. The cognitive evolution theory (CET) is based on three general prerequisites: physicalism, dynamism, and emergentism, which entail five consequences about the nature of consciousness: discreteness, passivity, uniqueness, integrity, and graduation. CET starts from the assumption that brains should have primarily evolved as volitional subsystems of organisms, not as prediction machines. This emphasizes the dynamical nature of consciousness in terms of critical dynamics to account for metastability, avalanches, and self-organized criticality of brain processes, then coupling it with volition and cognition in a framework unified over the levels. Consciousness emerges near critical points, and unfolds as a discrete stream of momentary states, each volitionally driven from oldest subcortical arousal systems. The stream is the brain's way of making a difference via predictive (Bayesian) processing. Its objective observables could be complexity measures reflecting levels of consciousness and its dynamical coherency to reveal how much knowledge (information gain) the brain acquires over the stream. CET also proposes a quantitative classification of both disorders of consciousness and mental disorders within that unified framework.
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Gervais C, Boucher LP, Villar GM, Lee U, Duclos C. A scoping review for building a criticality-based conceptual framework of altered states of consciousness. Front Syst Neurosci 2023; 17:1085902. [PMID: 37304151 PMCID: PMC10248073 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2023.1085902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023] Open
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The healthy conscious brain is thought to operate near a critical state, reflecting optimal information processing and high susceptibility to external stimuli. Conversely, deviations from the critical state are hypothesized to give rise to altered states of consciousness (ASC). Measures of criticality could therefore be an effective way of establishing the conscious state of an individual. Furthermore, characterizing the direction of a deviation from criticality may enable the development of treatment strategies for pathological ASC. The aim of this scoping review is to assess the current evidence supporting the criticality hypothesis, and the use of criticality as a conceptual framework for ASC. Using the PRISMA guidelines, Web of Science and PubMed were searched from inception to February 7th 2022 to find articles relating to measures of criticality across ASC. N = 427 independent papers were initially found on the subject. N = 378 were excluded because they were either: not related to criticality; not related to consciousness; not presenting results from a primary study; presenting model data. N = 49 independent papers were included in the present research, separated in 7 sub-categories of ASC: disorders of consciousness (DOC) (n = 5); sleep (n = 13); anesthesia (n = 18); epilepsy (n = 12); psychedelics and shamanic state of consciousness (n = 4); delirium (n = 1); meditative state (n = 2). Each category included articles suggesting a deviation of the critical state. While most studies were only able to identify a deviation from criticality without being certain of its direction, the preliminary consensus arising from the literature is that non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep reflects a subcritical state, epileptic seizures reflect a supercritical state, and psychedelics are closer to the critical state than normal consciousness. This scoping review suggests that, though the literature is limited and methodologically inhomogeneous, ASC are characterized by a deviation from criticality, though its direction is not clearly reported in a majority of studies. Criticality could become, with more extensive research, an effective and objective way to characterize ASC, and help identify therapeutic avenues to improve criticality in pathological brain states. Furthermore, we suggest how anesthesia and psychedelics could potentially be used as neuromodulation techniques to restore criticality in DOC.
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Affiliation(s)
- Charles Gervais
- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine & Integrated Trauma Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l’île-de-Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine & Integrated Trauma Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l’île-de-Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine & Integrated Trauma Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l’île-de-Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine & Integrated Trauma Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l’île-de-Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Maschke C, Duclos C, Owen AM, Jerbi K, Blain-Moraes S. Aperiodic brain activity and response to anesthesia vary in disorders of consciousness. Neuroimage 2023; 275:120154. [PMID: 37209758 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 03/28/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/22/2023] Open
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In the human electroencephalogram (EEG), oscillatory power peaks co-exist with non-oscillatory, aperiodic activity. Although EEG analysis has traditionally focused exclusively on oscillatory power, recent investigations have shown that the aperiodic EEG component can distinguish conscious wakefulness from sleep and anesthetic-induced unconsciousness. This study investigates the aperiodic EEG component of individuals in a disorder of consciousness (DOC); how it changes in response to exposure to anesthesia; and how it relates to the brain's information richness and criticality. High-density EEG was recorded from 43 individuals in a DOC, with 16 of these individuals undergoing a protocol of propofol anesthesia. The aperiodic component was defined by the spectral slope of the power spectral density. Our results demonstrate that the EEG aperiodic component is more informative about the participants' level of consciousness than the oscillatory component, especially for patients that suffered from a stroke. Importantly, the pharmacologically induced change in the spectral slope from 30-45 Hz positively correlated with individual's pre-anesthetic level of consciousness. The pharmacologically induced loss of information-richness and criticality was associated with individual's pre-anesthetic aperiodic component. During exposure to anesthesia, the aperiodic component was correlated with 3-month recovery status for individuals with DOC. The aperiodic EEG component has been historically neglected; this research highlights the necessity of considering this measure for the assessment of individuals in DOC and future research that seeks to understand the neurophysiological underpinnings of consciousness.
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- Charlotte Maschke
- Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada; Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, Centre intégré universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l'île-de-Montréal, Montréal, Québec Canada; Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; Western Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Québec, Canada; MILA (Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute), Montréal, Québec, Canada; Centre UNIQUE (Union Neurosciences & Intelligence Artificielle), Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada; School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
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Yurchenko SB. From the origins to the stream of consciousness and its neural correlates. Front Integr Neurosci 2022; 16:928978. [PMID: 36407293 PMCID: PMC9672924 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2022.928978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2022] [Indexed: 09/22/2023] Open
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There are now dozens of very different theories of consciousness, each somehow contributing to our understanding of its nature. The science of consciousness needs therefore not new theories but a general framework integrating insights from those, yet not making it a still-born "Frankenstein" theory. First, the framework must operate explicitly on the stream of consciousness, not on its static description. Second, this dynamical account must also be put on the evolutionary timeline to explain the origins of consciousness. The Cognitive Evolution Theory (CET), outlined here, proposes such a framework. This starts with the assumption that brains have primarily evolved as volitional subsystems of organisms, inherited from primitive (fast and random) reflexes of simplest neural networks, only then resembling error-minimizing prediction machines. CET adopts the tools of critical dynamics to account for metastability, scale-free avalanches, and self-organization which are all intrinsic to brain dynamics. This formalizes the stream of consciousness as a discrete (transitive, irreflexive) chain of momentary states derived from critical brain dynamics at points of phase transitions and mapped then onto a state space as neural correlates of a particular conscious state. The continuous/discrete dichotomy appears naturally between the brain dynamics at the causal level and conscious states at the phenomenal level, each volitionally triggered from arousal centers of the brainstem and cognitively modulated by thalamocortical systems. Their objective observables can be entropy-based complexity measures, reflecting the transient level or quantity of consciousness at that moment.
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Rabuffo G, Sorrentino P, Bernard C, Jirsa V. Spontaneous neuronal avalanches as a correlate of access consciousness. Front Psychol 2022; 13:1008407. [PMID: 36337573 PMCID: PMC9634647 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1008407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 09/03/2023] Open
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Decades of research have advanced our understanding of the biophysical mechanisms underlying consciousness. However, an overarching framework bridging between models of consciousness and the large-scale organization of spontaneous brain activity is still missing. Based on the observation that spontaneous brain activity dynamically switches between epochs of segregation and large-scale integration of information, we hypothesize a brain-state dependence of conscious access, whereby the presence of either segregated or integrated states marks distinct modes of information processing. We first review influential works on the neuronal correlates of consciousness, spontaneous resting-state brain activity and dynamical system theory. Then, we propose a test experiment to validate our hypothesis that conscious access occurs in aperiodic cycles, alternating windows where new incoming information is collected but not experienced, to punctuated short-lived integration events, where conscious access to previously collected content occurs. In particular, we suggest that the integration events correspond to neuronal avalanches, which are collective bursts of neuronal activity ubiquitously observed in electrophysiological recordings. If confirmed, the proposed framework would link the physics of spontaneous cortical dynamics, to the concept of ignition within the global neuronal workspace theory, whereby conscious access manifest itself as a burst of neuronal activity.
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- Giovanni Rabuffo
- Institut de Neurosciences des Systemes, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
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O'Byrne J, Jerbi K. How critical is brain criticality? Trends Neurosci 2022; 45:820-837. [PMID: 36096888 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2022.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Revised: 07/27/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Criticality is the singular state of complex systems poised at the brink of a phase transition between order and randomness. Such systems display remarkable information-processing capabilities, evoking the compelling hypothesis that the brain may itself be critical. This foundational idea is now drawing renewed interest thanks to high-density data and converging cross-disciplinary knowledge. Together, these lines of inquiry have shed light on the intimate link between criticality, computation, and cognition. Here, we review these emerging trends in criticality neuroscience, highlighting new data pertaining to the edge of chaos and near-criticality, and making a case for the distance to criticality as a useful metric for probing cognitive states and mental illness. This unfolding progress in the field contributes to establishing criticality theory as a powerful mechanistic framework for studying emergent function and its efficiency in both biological and artificial neural networks.
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- Jordan O'Byrne
- Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; MILA (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute), Montreal, Quebec, Canada; UNIQUE Center (Quebec Neuro-AI Research Center), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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A complex system is often associated with emergence of new phenomena from the interactions between the system's components. General anesthesia reduces brain complexity and so inhibits the emergence of consciousness. An understanding of complexity is necessary for the interpretation of brain monitoring algorithms. Complexity indices capture the "difficulty" of understanding brain activity over time and/or space. Complexity-entropy plots reveal the types of complexity indices and their balance of randomness and structure. Lempel-Ziv complexity is a common index of temporal complexity for single-channel electroencephalogram containing both power spectral and nonlinear effects, revealed by phase-randomized surrogate data. Computing spatial complexities involves forming a connectivity matrix and calculating the complexity of connectivity patterns. Spatiotemporal complexity can be estimated in multiple ways including temporal or spatial concatenation, estimation of state switching, or integrated information. This article illustrates the concept and application of various complexities by providing working examples; a website with interactive demonstrations has also been created.
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Walter N, Hinterberger T. Self-organized criticality as a framework for consciousness: A review study. Front Psychol 2022; 13:911620. [PMID: 35911009 PMCID: PMC9336647 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.911620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Objective No current model of consciousness is univocally accepted on either theoretical or empirical grounds, and the need for a solid unifying framework is evident. Special attention has been given to the premise that self-organized criticality (SOC) is a fundamental property of neural system. SOC provides a competitive model to describe the physical mechanisms underlying spontaneous brain activity, and thus, critical dynamics were proposed as general gauges of information processing representing a strong candidate for a surrogate measure of consciousness. As SOC could be a neurodynamical framework, which may be able to bring together existing theories and experimental evidence, the purpose of this work was to provide a comprehensive overview of progress of research on SOC in association with consciousness. Methods A comprehensive search of publications on consciousness and SOC published between 1998 and 2021 was conducted. The Web of Science database was searched, and annual number of publications and citations, type of articles, and applied methods were determined. Results A total of 71 publications were identified. The annual number of citations steadily increased over the years. Original articles comprised 50.7% and reviews/theoretical articles 43.6%. Sixteen studies reported on human data and in seven studies data were recorded in animals. Computational models were utilized in n = 12 studies. EcoG data were assessed in n = 4 articles, fMRI in n = 4 studies, and EEG/MEG in n = 10 studies. Notably, different analytical tools were applied in the EEG/MEG studies to assess a surrogate measure of criticality such as the detrended fluctuation analysis, the pair correlation function, parameters from the neuronal avalanche analysis and the spectral exponent. Conclusion Recent studies pointed out agreements of critical dynamics with the current most influencing theories in the field of consciousness research, the global workspace theory and the integrated information theory. Thus, the framework of SOC as a neurodynamical parameter for consciousness seems promising. However, identified experimental work was small in numbers, and a heterogeneity of applied analytical tools as a surrogate measure of criticality was observable, which limits the generalizability of findings.
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Walter N, Hinterberger T. Determining states of consciousness in the electroencephalogram based on spectral, complexity, and criticality features. Neurosci Conscious 2022; 2022:niac008. [PMID: 35903410 PMCID: PMC9319002 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niac008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Revised: 04/19/2022] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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This study was based on the contemporary proposal that distinct states of consciousness
are quantifiable by neural complexity and critical dynamics. To test this hypothesis, it
was aimed at comparing the electrophysiological correlates of three meditation conditions
using nonlinear techniques from the complexity and criticality framework as well as power
spectral density. Thirty participants highly proficient in meditation were measured with
64-channel electroencephalography (EEG) during one session consisting of a task-free
baseline resting (eyes closed and eyes open), a reading condition, and three meditation
conditions (thoughtless emptiness, presence monitoring, and focused attention). The data
were analyzed applying analytical tools from criticality theory (detrended fluctuation
analysis, neuronal avalanche analysis), complexity measures (multiscale entropy, Higuchi’s
fractal dimension), and power spectral density. Task conditions were contrasted, and
effect sizes were compared. Partial least square regression and receiver operating
characteristics analysis were applied to determine the discrimination accuracy of each
measure. Compared to resting with eyes closed, the meditation categories emptiness and
focused attention showed higher values of entropy and fractal dimension. Long-range
temporal correlations were declined in all meditation conditions. The critical exponent
yielded the lowest values for focused attention and reading. The highest discrimination
accuracy was found for the gamma band (0.83–0.98), the global power spectral density
(0.78–0.96), and the sample entropy (0.86–0.90). Electrophysiological correlates of
distinct meditation states were identified and the relationship between nonlinear
complexity, critical brain dynamics, and spectral features was determined. The meditation
states could be discriminated with nonlinear measures and quantified by the degree of
neuronal complexity, long-range temporal correlations, and power law distributions in
neuronal avalanches.
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- Nike Walter
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Section of Applied Consciousness Sciences, University Hospital of Regensburg , Franz-Josef-Strauß Allee 11, Regensburg 93059, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Section of Applied Consciousness Sciences, University Hospital of Regensburg , Franz-Josef-Strauß Allee 11, Regensburg 93059, Germany
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Mediano PAM, Rosas FE, Bor D, Seth AK, Barrett AB. The strength of weak integrated information theory. Trends Cogn Sci 2022; 26:646-655. [PMID: 35659757 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2021] [Revised: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The integrated information theory of consciousness (IIT) is divisive: while some believe it provides an unprecedentedly powerful approach to address the 'hard problem', others dismiss it on grounds that it is untestable. We argue that the appeal and applicability of IIT can be greatly widened if we distinguish two flavours of the theory: strong IIT, which identifies consciousness with specific properties associated with maxima of integrated information; and weak IIT, which tests pragmatic hypotheses relating aspects of consciousness to broader measures of information dynamics. We review challenges for strong IIT, explain how existing empirical findings are well explained by weak IIT without needing to commit to the entirety of strong IIT, and discuss the outlook for both flavours of IIT.
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- Pedro A M Mediano
- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Department of Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
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- Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, London, UK; Data Science Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK; Centre for Complexity Science, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Department of Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; CIFAR Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, Toronto, Canada
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- Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; The Data Intensive Science Centre, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
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Kim M, Harris RE, DaSilva AF, Lee U. Explosive Synchronization-Based Brain Modulation Reduces Hypersensitivity in the Brain Network: A Computational Model Study. Front Comput Neurosci 2022; 16:815099. [PMID: 35311218 PMCID: PMC8927545 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2022.815099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 01/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain condition that is characterized by hypersensitivity to multimodal sensory stimuli, widespread pain, and fatigue. We have previously proposed explosive synchronization (ES), a phenomenon wherein a small perturbation to a network can lead to an abrupt state transition, as a potential mechanism of the hypersensitive FM brain. Therefore, we hypothesized that converting a brain network from ES to general synchronization (GS) may reduce the hypersensitivity of FM brain. To find an effective brain network modulation to convert ES into GS, we constructed a large-scale brain network model near criticality (i.e., an optimally balanced state between order and disorders), which reflects brain dynamics in conscious wakefulness, and adjusted two parameters: local structural connectivity and signal randomness of target brain regions. The network sensitivity to global stimuli was compared between the brain networks before and after the modulation. We found that only increasing the local connectivity of hubs (nodes with intense connections) changes ES to GS, reducing the sensitivity, whereas other types of modulation such as decreasing local connectivity, increasing and decreasing signal randomness are not effective. This study would help to develop a network mechanism-based brain modulation method to reduce the hypersensitivity in FM.
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- MinKyung Kim
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Headache & Orofacial Pain Effort Laboratory, Biologic & Materials Sciences Department, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- *Correspondence: UnCheol Lee,
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Background: The wakeful brain can easily access and coordinate a large repertoire of different states—dynamics suggestive of “criticality.” Anesthesia causes loss of criticality at the level of electroencephalogram waveforms, but the criticality of brain network connectivity is less well studied. The authors hypothesized that propofol anesthesia is associated with abrupt and divergent changes in brain network connectivity for different frequencies and time scales—characteristic of a phase transition, a signature of loss of criticality. Methods: As part of a previously reported study, 16 volunteers were given propofol in slowly increasing brain concentrations, and their behavioral responsiveness was assessed. The network dynamics from 31-channel electroencephalogram data were calculated from 1 to 20 Hz using four phase and envelope amplitude–based functional connectivity metrics that covered a wide range of time scales from milliseconds to minutes. The authors calculated network global efficiency, clustering coefficient, and statistical complexity (using the Jensen–Shannon divergence) for each functional connectivity metric and compared their findings with those from an in silico Kuramoto network model. Results: The transition to anesthesia was associated with critical slowing and then abrupt profound decreases in global network efficiency of 2 Hz power envelope metrics (from mean ± SD of 0.64 ± 0.15 to 0.29 ± 0.28 absolute value, P < 0.001, for medium; and from 0.47 ± 0.13 to 0.24 ± 0.21, P < 0.001, for long time scales) but with an increase in global network efficiency for 10 Hz weighted phase lag index (from 0.30 ± 0.20 to 0.72 ± 0.06, P < 0.001). Network complexity decreased for both the 10 Hz hypersynchronous (0.44 ± 0.13 to 0.23 ± 0.08, P < 0.001), and the 2 Hz asynchronous (0.73 ± 0.08 to 0.40 ± 0.13, P < 0.001) network states. These patterns of network coupling were consistent with those of the Kuramoto model of an order–disorder phase transition. Conclusions: Around loss of behavioral responsiveness, a small increase in propofol concentrations caused a collapse of long time scale power envelope connectivity and an increase in 10 Hz phase-based connectivity—suggestive of a brain network phase transition. Temporospatial electroencephalographic analysis of brain network dynamics over a wide range of frequencies and time scales in 16 volunteers receiving slowly increasing concentrations of propofol revealed that transition to unresponsiveness was associated with a sudden rise in alpha frequency network phase synchrony anteriorly, but also a transient surge and then loss of network coupling over long (tens of seconds) time scales. Deep anesthesia was characterized by alpha waveform hypersynchrony and slow-wave power envelope dissynchrony across the whole cortex. These observations suggest that propofol anesthesia is associated with a constellation of changes in network connectivity across frequencies and time scales that are signatures of sharp and sudden transitions in the behavior of networks.
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Kim M, Kim H, Huang Z, Mashour GA, Jordan D, Ilg R, Lee U. Criticality Creates a Functional Platform for Network Transitions Between Internal and External Processing Modes in the Human Brain. Front Syst Neurosci 2021; 15:657809. [PMID: 34899199 PMCID: PMC8657781 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2021.657809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Continuous switching between internal and external modes in the brain appears important for generating models of the self and the world. However, how the brain transitions between these two modes remains unknown. We propose that a large synchronization fluctuation of brain networks, emerging only near criticality (i.e., a balanced state between order and disorder), spontaneously creates temporal windows with distinct preferences for integrating the network's internal information or for processing external stimuli. Using a computational model, electroencephalography (EEG) analysis, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis during alterations of consciousness in humans, we report that synchronized and incoherent networks, respectively, bias toward internal and external information with specific network configurations. In the brain network model and EEG-based network, the network preferences are the most prominent at criticality and in conscious states associated with the bandwidth 4-12 Hz, with alternating functional network configurations. However, these network configurations are selectively disrupted in different states of consciousness such as general anesthesia, psychedelic states, minimally conscious states, and unresponsive wakefulness syndrome. The network preference for internal information integration is only significant in conscious states and psychedelic states, but not in other unconscious states, suggesting the importance of internal information integration in maintaining consciousness. The fMRI co-activation pattern analysis shows that functional networks that are sensitive to external stimuli-such as default mode, dorsal attentional, and frontoparietal networks-are activated in incoherent states, while insensitive networks, such as global activation and deactivation networks, are dominated in highly synchronized states. We suggest that criticality produces a functional platform for the brain's capability for continuous switching between two modes, which is crucial for the emergence of consciousness.
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- Minkyung Kim
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.,Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.,Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.,Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.,Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.,Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland.,Department of Anesthesiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.,Department of Neurology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland.,Department of Anesthesiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.,Department of Neurology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.,Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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Sarasso S, Casali AG, Casarotto S, Rosanova M, Sinigaglia C, Massimini M. Consciousness and complexity: a consilience of evidence. Neurosci Conscious 2021; 2021:niab023. [PMID: 38496724 PMCID: PMC10941977 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niab023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Revised: 06/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 03/19/2024] Open
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Over the last years, a surge of empirical studies converged on complexity-related measures as reliable markers of consciousness across many different conditions, such as sleep, anesthesia, hallucinatory states, coma, and related disorders. Most of these measures were independently proposed by researchers endorsing disparate frameworks and employing different methods and techniques. Since this body of evidence has not been systematically reviewed and coherently organized so far, this positive trend has remained somewhat below the radar. The aim of this paper is to make this consilience of evidence in the science of consciousness explicit. We start with a systematic assessment of the growing literature on complexity-related measures and identify their common denominator, tracing it back to core theoretical principles and predictions put forward more than 20 years ago. In doing this, we highlight a consistent trajectory spanning two decades of consciousness research and provide a provisional taxonomy of the present literature. Finally, we consider all of the above as a positive ground to approach new questions and devise future experiments that may help consolidate and further develop a promising field where empirical research on consciousness appears to have, so far, naturally converged.
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- Simone Sarasso
- Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ‘L. Sacco’, University of Milan, Milan 20157, Italy
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- Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos, 12247-014, Brazil
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- Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ‘L. Sacco’, University of Milan, Milan 20157, Italy
- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan 20148, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ‘L. Sacco’, University of Milan, Milan 20157, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ‘L. Sacco’, University of Milan, Milan 20157, Italy
- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan 20148, Italy
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Huels ER, Kim H, Lee U, Bel-Bahar T, Colmenero AV, Nelson A, Blain-Moraes S, Mashour GA, Harris RE. Neural Correlates of the Shamanic State of Consciousness. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:610466. [PMID: 33815077 PMCID: PMC8012721 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.610466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Psychedelics have been recognized as model interventions for studying altered states of consciousness. However, few empirical studies of the shamanic state of consciousness, which is anecdotally similar to the psychedelic state, exist. We investigated the neural correlates of shamanic trance using high-density electroencephalography (EEG) in 24 shamanic practitioners and 24 healthy controls during rest, shamanic drumming, and classical music listening, followed by an assessment of altered states of consciousness. EEG data were used to assess changes in absolute power, connectivity, signal diversity, and criticality, which were correlated with assessment measures. We also compared assessment scores to those of individuals in a previous study under the influence of psychedelics. Shamanic practitioners were significantly different from controls in several domains of altered states of consciousness, with scores comparable to or exceeding that of healthy volunteers under the influence of psychedelics. Practitioners also displayed increased gamma power during drumming that positively correlated with elementary visual alterations. Furthermore, shamanic practitioners had decreased low alpha and increased low beta connectivity during drumming and classical music and decreased neural signal diversity in the gamma band during drumming that inversely correlated with insightfulness. Finally, criticality in practitioners was increased during drumming in the low and high beta and gamma bands, with increases in the low beta band correlating with complex imagery and elementary visual alterations. These findings suggest that psychedelic drug-induced and non-pharmacologic alterations in consciousness have overlapping phenomenal traits but are distinct states of consciousness, as reflected by the unique brain-related changes during shamanic trance compared to previous literature investigating the psychedelic state.
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- Emma R. Huels
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Division of Translational Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States
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- The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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Brain network motifs are markers of loss and recovery of consciousness. Sci Rep 2021; 11:3892. [PMID: 33594110 PMCID: PMC7887248 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83482-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Motifs are patterns of inter-connections between nodes of a network, and have been investigated as building blocks of directed networks. This study explored the re-organization of 3-node motifs during loss and recovery of consciousness. Nine healthy subjects underwent a 3-h anesthetic protocol while 128-channel electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded. In the alpha (8-13 Hz) band, 5-min epochs of EEG were extracted for: Baseline; Induction; Unconscious; 30-, 10- and 5-min pre-recovery of responsiveness; 30- and 180-min post-recovery of responsiveness. We constructed a functional brain network using the weighted and directed phase lag index, on which we calculated the frequency and topology of 3-node motifs. Three motifs (motifs 1, 2 and 5) were significantly present across participants and epochs, when compared to random networks (p < 0.05). The topology of motifs 1 and 5 changed significantly between responsive and unresponsive epochs (p-values < 0.01; Kendall's W = 0.664 (motif 1) and 0.529 (motif 5)). Motif 1 was constituted of long-range chain-like connections, while motif 5 was constituted of short-range, loop-like connections. Our results suggest that anesthetic-induced unconsciousness is associated with a topological re-organization of network motifs. As motif topological re-organization may precede (motif 5) or accompany (motif 1) the return of responsiveness, motifs could contribute to the understanding of the neural correlates of consciousness.
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Aguilera M, Di Paolo EA. Critical integration in neural and cognitive systems: Beyond power-law scaling as the hallmark of soft assembly. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021; 123:230-237. [PMID: 33485887 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Inspired by models of self-organized criticality, a family of measures quantifies long-range correlations in neural and behavioral activity in the form of self-similar (e.g., power-law scaled) patterns across a range of scales. Long-range correlations are often taken as evidence that a system is near a critical transition, suggesting interaction-dominant, softly assembled relations between its parts. Psychologists and neuroscientists frequently use power-law scaling as evidence of critical regimes and soft assembly in neural and cognitive activity. Critics, however, argue that this methodology operates at most at the level of an analogy between cognitive and other natural phenomena. This is because power-laws do not provide information about a particular system's organization or what makes it specifically cognitive. We respond to this criticism using recent work in Integrated Information Theory. We propose a more principled understanding of criticality as a system's susceptibility to changes in its own integration, a property cognitive agents are expected to manifest. We contrast critical integration with power-law measures and find the former more informative about the underlying processes.
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- Miguel Aguilera
- IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind and Society, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain; Department of Informatics & Sussex Neuroscience, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK; ISAAC Lab, Aragón Institute of Engineering Research (I3A), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
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- IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind and Society, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain; Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bizkaia, Spain; Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK
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The Emergence of Integrated Information, Complexity, and 'Consciousness' at Criticality. ENTROPY 2020; 22:e22030339. [PMID: 33286113 PMCID: PMC7516800 DOI: 10.3390/e22030339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2020] [Revised: 03/06/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Integrated Information Theory (IIT) posits that integrated information ( Φ ) represents the quantity of a conscious experience. Here, the generalized Ising model was used to calculate Φ as a function of temperature in toy models of fully connected neural networks. A Monte-Carlo simulation was run on 159 normalized, random, positively weighted networks analogous to small five-node excitatory neural network motifs. Integrated information generated by this sample of small Ising models was measured across model parameter spaces. It was observed that integrated information, as an order parameter, underwent a phase transition at the critical point in the model. This critical point was demarcated by the peak of the generalized susceptibility (or variance in configuration due to temperature) of integrated information. At this critical point, integrated information was maximally receptive and responsive to perturbations of its own states. The results of this study provide evidence that Φ can capture integrated information in an empirical dataset, and display critical behavior acting as an order parameter from the generalized Ising model.
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Mashour GA, Roelfsema P, Changeux JP, Dehaene S. Conscious Processing and the Global Neuronal Workspace Hypothesis. Neuron 2020; 105:776-798. [PMID: 32135090 PMCID: PMC8770991 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 364] [Impact Index Per Article: 91.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2019] [Revised: 10/31/2019] [Accepted: 01/22/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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We review the central tenets and neuroanatomical basis of the global neuronal workspace (GNW) hypothesis, which attempts to account for the main scientific observations regarding the elementary mechanisms of conscious processing in the human brain. The GNW hypothesis proposes that, in the conscious state, a non-linear network ignition associated with recurrent processing amplifies and sustains a neural representation, allowing the corresponding information to be globally accessed by local processors. We examine this hypothesis in light of recent data that contrast brain activity evoked by either conscious or non-conscious contents, as well as during conscious or non-conscious states, particularly general anesthesia. We also discuss the relationship between the intertwined concepts of conscious processing, attention, and working memory.
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- George A Mashour
- Center for Consciousness Science, Neuroscience Graduate Program, and Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Vision & Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- CNRS UMR 3571, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris, France; Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France; Kavli Institute for Brain & Mind, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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- Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France; Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin Center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France.
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