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Marcello Massimini

Professor of Neurophysiology · University of Milan

Milan, Italy

Research Areas

Clinical ResearchConsciousnessNeuroscience

About

Neuroscientist who developed the perturbational complexity index (PCI), a TMS-EEG based measure that reliably distinguishes conscious from unconscious brain states in clinical settings including vegetative state patients.

Publications

  • Sizing Up Consciousness: Towards an Objective Measure of the Capacity for Experience
  • A Theoretically Based Index of Consciousness Independent of Sensory Processing and Behavior
  • Consciousness and Complexity during Unresponsiveness
  • Breakdown of Cortical Effective Connectivity During Sleep

Related Guides

Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (HOT)

Rosenthal and Lau's framework proposing consciousness requires higher-order mental representations about our own mental states.

Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)

Penrose and Hameroff's quantum theory proposing consciousness arises from gravitational self-collapse in neuronal microtubules.

Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)

The search for the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept.

Idealism in Philosophy of Mind

Bernardo Kastrup's analytical idealism and the philosophical tradition arguing consciousness is fundamental, not matter.

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