Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science

16/11/2019

Was a privilege and a pleasure to spend time with the truly inspirational writers, artists; and editors - from ages 12 to 18 - of kidspirit 2019. Theirs is a mission to believe in.

06/09/2019

New paper on decomposing integrated information. Consciousness, and integrated information, are multi-dimensional!

Most information dynamics and statistical causal analysis frameworks rely on the common intuition that causal interactions are intrinsically pairwise -- every 'cause' variable has an associated 'effect' variable, so that a 'causal arrow' can be drawn between them. However, analyses that depict inter...

13/02/2019

New commentary on Integrated Information Theory, by Adam Barrett and Pedro Antonio Martínez Mediano - "The Phi Measure of Integrated Information is not Well-Defined for General Physical Systems" https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2019/00000026/f0020001/art00002 #

26/06/2018

New paper: "Measuring Integrated Information: Comparison of Candidate Measures in
Theory and Simulation"

11/05/2018

Where I think we're at with scientific theories of consciousness.

Consciousness final frontier of science?

02/02/2017

Our latest paper on consciousness and complexity, this one analysing depth electrode data from sleeping patients. https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/doi/10.1093/nc/niw022/2957408/Global-and-local-complexity-of-intracranial-EEG

03/02/2016

Spiked Online's interview with Prof Anil Seth, on what neuroscience can, and can't, tell us about consciousness
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-material-soul/17970 #.VrI_E2NxOO1

Anil Seth explores what neuroscience can – and can’t – tell us about consciousness.

04/01/2016

Adam Barrett: My comment on Tononi & Koch's recent paper on the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1687/20140198

It is a beautiful idea that consciousness could in some sense be identified with intrinsic integrated information, and it is fascinating to contemplate a theory of consciousness that has the potential to explain the relationship between physical structure and conscious phenomenology [1]. However, st…

20/11/2015

Want to do a Ph.D. on the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness? Opportunities for Autumn 2016 entry are now up on our website!

Studying at the Sackler Centre involves registering for a degree at one of the participating schools (Informatics, Psychology, or BSMS). There is also now a dedicated Sackler Centre Ph.D. programme, jointly supported by the Centre with participating schools. Taking an M.Sc degree at Sussex is an exc…

11/08/2015

Our new paper on consciousness and complexity! Congratulations to my student Michael Schartner for all the hard work

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0133532

Emerging neural theories of consciousness suggest a correlation between a specific type of neural dynamical complexity and the level of consciousness: When awake and aware, causal interactions between brain regions are both integrated (all regions are to a certain extent connected) and differentiate…

27/03/2015

Our substitutional reality kit featured on BBC Radio 4's Inside Science this week (skip to 21:15 for Sackler Centre and Anil Seth)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nd4yv

Should people embrace the changes resulting from invasive alien species?

11/03/2015

Explore interoception with Sackler neuroscientists at British Science Week: Dr Cass Gould & Dr Charlotte Rae will be speaking at 'Rhythms of the Heart', an interactive workshop on the interplay between heart, emotion and rhythms. Come along and hear about our recent discoveries on how heart rhythm influences our thoughts, feelings and behaviours - and try out our experiments first-hand! Friday 20th & Saturday 21st March, The Proud Archivist, London
http://www.theproudarchivist.co.uk/event/rhythms-of-the-heart/

BOOK HERE. Rhythms of The Heart – Presented by ‘Jugular:Joining The Head and The Heart’ “SCIENCE” “ART” “PERFORMANCE” “PHILOSOPHY” “Inspired by everyday life and informed by specialist research, we invite you to celebrate both your emotions and intellect through performance spanning theatre, music,…