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COGITATE

Collaboration on GNW and IIT:
Testing Alternative Theories of Experience

Theories
  • Integrated Information Theory (IIT)

  • Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT)

Project Director
  • Lucia Melloni

Media Contacts

Meet the Team

Lucia Melloni

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Project Co-Director, Experiment Lead (PI)

Liad Mudrik

Tel Aviv University

Project Co-Director, Experiment Lead (PI)

Michael Pitts

Reed College

Project Co-Director, Experiment Lead (PI)

Hal Blumenfeld

Yale University

Experiment Lead (PI)

Floris de Lange

Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging

Experiment Lead (PI)

Sasha Devore

New York University Langone

Experiment Lead (PI)

Ole Jensen

Birmingham University

Experiment Lead (PI)

Gabriel Kreiman

Harvard University

Experiment Lead (PI)

Huan Luo

Peking University

Experiment Lead (PI)

Stanislas Dehaene

CEA

Theory Leader

Giulio Tononi

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Theory Leader, Collaborator

Melanie Boly

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Theory Leader

Christof Koch

Allen Insitute

Theory Leader, Collaborator

Theofanis I. Panagiotaropoulos

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Theory Leader, Collaborator

Xuan Cui

University of Glasgow / Birmingham University

Lead Author

Matthias Ekman

Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging

Lead Author

Oscar Ferrante

Birmingham University

Lead Author

Urszula Gorska-Klimowska

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lead Author

Simon Henin

New York University Langone

Lead Author

Rony Hirschhorn

Tel Aviv University

Lead Author

Aya Khalaf

Yale University

Lead Author

Alex Lepauvre

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Lead Author

Ling Liu

Peking University

Lead Author

Pablo Oyarzo

Freie Universität Berlin

Lead Author

Zvi Roth

Bar-Ilan University

Lead Author

David Richter

Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging

Lead Author

Yamil Vidal

Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging

Lead Author

Niccolò Bonacchi

Champalimaud Foundation

Collaborator

Tanya Brown

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Technical/Project Support

Diptyajit Das

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Technical/Project Support

Kyle Kahraman

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Technical/Project Support

Praveen Sripad

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Technical/Project Support

Fatemeh Taheriyan

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Technical/Project Support

Marcelo Armendariz

Harvard University

Collaborator

Katarina Bendtz

Harvard University

Collaborator

Tara Ghafari

Birmingham University

Collaborator

Dorottya Hetenyi

Birmingham University

Collaborator

Stephanie Montenegro

New York University Langone

Collaborator

Jay Jeschke

New York University Langone

Collaborator

Csaba Kozma

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Collaborator

David Mazumder

Harvard University

Collaborator

Alia Seedat

New York University Langone

Collaborator

Abdelrahman Sharafeldin

Yale University

Collaborator

Shujun Yang

Peking University

Collaborator

Sylvain Baillet

McGill University

Advisory Board

David J Chalmers

NYU's Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness

Advisory Board

Radoslaw Cichy

Freie Universität

Advisory Board

Francis Fallon

St John's University

Advisory Board

Michael Kahana

University of Pennsylvania

Advisory Board

Essa Yacoub

University of Minnesota - Medical School

Advisory Board

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