Sleep research, integrated information theory, consciousness studies
Awards
NIH Director's Pioneer award (2005)
Scientific career
Fields
Psychology, neuroscience
Institutions
University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Pisa University of California at San Diego
Notable students
Erik Hoel
Giulio Tononi (Italian:[ˈdʒuːljotoˈnoːni]) is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who holds the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, as well as a Distinguished Chair in Consciousness Science, at the University of Wisconsin. He is best known for his Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a mathematical theory of consciousness, which he has proposed since 2004.[1][2]
^Oizumi, Masafumi; Albantakis, Larissa; Tononi, Giulio (2014-05-08). "From the Phenomenology to the Mechanisms of Consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0". PLOS Comput Biol. 10 (5): e1003588. Bibcode:2014PLSCB..10E3588O. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003588. PMC 4014402. PMID 24811198.
^Tononi, Giulio (22 January 2015). "Integrated information theory". Scholarpedia. 10 (1): 4164. Bibcode:2015SchpJ..10.4164T. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.4164.
GiulioTononi (Italian: [ˈdʒuːljo toˈnoːni]) is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who holds the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, as well as a Distinguished...
unfolding its complete causal powers. IIT was proposed by neuroscientist GiulioTononi in 2004. Despite significant interest, IIT remains controversial and...
and Ned Block and cognitive neuroscientists such as Francisco Varela, GiulioTononi, and Christof Koch. On the other hand, its existence is denied by other...
Maurice Edelman and GiulioTononi; published in UK as Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination. This book, written with GiulioTononi, is the culmination...
Karina R. Casali, Silvia Casarotto, Marie-Aurélie Bruno, Steven Laureys, GiulioTononi, Marcello Massimini (14 August 2013). "A Theoretically based index of...
networks. GiulioTononi first articulated Integrated information theory (IIT) in 2004, and it has undergone two major revisions since then. Tononi approaches...
Giorgio Tononi and the brother of neuroscientist GiulioTononi. He graduated with a degree in economics from Bocconi University in 1988. Tononi worked...
Air, Brilliant Fire (1992), A Universe of Consciousness (2001, with GiulioTononi), Wider than the Sky (2004) and Second Nature: Brain Science and Human...
neuroscientists Gerald Edelman, Antonio Damasio, Vilayanur Ramachandran, GiulioTononi, and Rodolfo Llinás, all of whom state that qualia exist and that the...
experience when a subjective self exists. According to neuroscientist GiulioTononi, consciousness is "all we are and all we have: lose consciousness and...
pianist Giulio Toniolatti (born 1984), Italian rugby union player GiulioTononi (born 1960), Italian neuroscientist and psychiatrist Giulio Turcato (1912–1995)...
Machines. London: Hayward Gallery. ISBN 1-85332-202-4. Edelman, Gerald and GiulioTononi, Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination, 2000, Allen Lane, London...
Sara Mednick; Allan Pack; Luis de Lecea; David Dinges; Dan Kripke; GiulioTononi (February 2007). "Waking Up To Sleep" (Several conference videos). The...
and are governed by applicable laws. For example, Christof Koch and GiulioTononi wrote in IEEE Spectrum: Consciousness is part of the natural world....
decade, Koch has worked closely with the psychiatrist and neuroscientist GiulioTononi. Koch advocates for a modern variant of panpsychism, the ancient philosophical...
psychiatry Jared Tinklenberg 1939–2020 American Alzheimer's disease GiulioTononi 1960– Italian Sleep research, integrated information theory, consciousness...
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Neuroscientists such as Gerald Edelman, Antonio Damasio, Vilayanur Ramachandran, GiulioTononi, Christof Koch and Rodolfo Llinás argue that qualia exist and that the...
advisory board includes a number of prominent scientists, including GiulioTononi, Alfio Quarteroni and Adina L. Roskies. The desire of Lucca to have...
Bernard Baars Christof Koch Francis Crick Francisco Varela Gerald Edelman GiulioTononi Karl Pribram Lawrence Weiskrantz Michael Gazzaniga Michael Graziano...
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