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How does consciousness work? - Monash Lens lens.monash.edu Jul 4, 2025 8 facts
accountThe Cogitate Consortium achieved an agreement between rival theorists on testable predictions for both the global workspace theory and the integrated information theory.
accountIsraeli-US psychologist Daniel Kahneman advised the Cogitate Consortium team on the use of adversarial collaborations for research.
claimA 2022 paper by researchers in the Cogitate Consortium demonstrated that it is possible to predict which theory of consciousness a particular study supports based purely on its experimental design.
claimThe study conducted by the Cogitate Consortium represents an advance in theory-testing methods within the consciousness research community, even though it did not definitively support either the global workspace theory or the integrated information theory.
claimThe Cogitate Consortium's adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace theory and integrated information theory produced inconclusive results, with some findings supporting the theories and others challenging them.
procedureThe Cogitate Consortium conducted the same experiments in different laboratories that were not committed to the specific theories being tested.
claimThe journal Nature published the results of an “adversarial collaboration” by the Cogitate Consortium, which tested the global neuronal workspace theory and the integrated information theory.
claimThe Cogitate Consortium failed to find the sustained synchronization within the posterior cortex that was predicted by integrated information theory.
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and ... - Nature nature.com Apr 30, 2025 8 facts
procedureThe Cogitate consortium conducted a study on consciousness theories where analysis was performed at the participant level, masked using anatomical regions of interest (ROIs) to account for inter-participant variability.
referenceThe full study protocol for the Cogitate consortium's research on consciousness theories, including experimental design, theory predictions, agreed-on interpretations, and data acquisition details, is available in the preregistration on the Open Science Framework (OSF) webpage (https://osf.io/92tbg/).
procedureThe Cogitate consortium distributes M-EEG, fMRI, and iEEG datasets through downloadable data bundles and an XNAT instance (https://cogitate-data.ae.mpg.de), with raw and BIDS formats available at https://www.arc-cogitate.com/data-bundles.
procedureThe Cogitate consortium performed a multivariate version of the putative neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) analysis using thresholded statistical maps obtained from whole-brain searchlight decoding based on participant-level stimulus versus baseline-decoding accuracy maps.
referenceThe Cogitate XNAT data release was published by the Cogitate Consortium et al. in 2024 (DOI: 10.17617/1.k278-n152).
codeThe Cogitate Consortium released the Cogitate-experiment-code version 1.0 via Zenodo in 2024.
codeThe Cogitate consortium released task and analysis codes under an MIT license on GitHub, with the task code available at https://github.com/Cogitate-consortium/cogitate-experiment-code and the analysis code at https://github.com/Cogitate-consortium/cogitate-msp1.
codeThe Cogitate Consortium released the MSP-1 analysis code via Zenodo in 2024.
Rethinking Consciousness: When Science Puts Itself to the Test maxplanckneuroscience.org May 14, 2025 6 facts
procedureThe Cogitate Consortium utilized an adversarial collaboration approach, which involves theory leaders and researchers designing a study with preregistered hypotheses, analyses, and interpretations to provide an objective, falsifiable test of their predictions.
claimThe Cogitate Consortium study found that while some conscious information appeared in the prefrontal cortex, the Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) prediction of 'ignition' at the offset of conscious experience could not be confirmed.
measurementThe Cogitate Consortium study involved 256 participants across seven laboratories worldwide, utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG).
claimThe Cogitate Consortium (Collaboration On GNWT and IIT: Testing Alternative Theories of Experience) conducted an adversarial test of the Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) and the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) to evaluate how conscious experience arises from neural activity.
claimThe Cogitate Consortium study found that the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) prediction that conscious perception depends on sustained synchronization in posterior brain regions was not supported by the data.
claimThe principal investigators of the Cogitate Consortium study on consciousness theories include Liad Mudrik (Tel Aviv University), Michael Pitts (Reed College), Ole Jensen (University of Oxford), Floris de Lange (Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging), Gabriel Kreiman (Harvard University), Huan Luo (Peking University), Hal Blumenfeld (Yale University), Simon Henin (NYU Langone Health), Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Stanislas Dehaene (CEA NeuroSpin), and Christof Koch (Allen Institute).
Seven-Year Experiment Uncovers New Insights into Nature of ... sci.news May 1, 2025 5 facts
claimThe Cogitate Consortium study provided valuable insights into both global neuronal workspace theory and integrated information theory, specifically regarding where and when in the brain information about visual experience can be decoded.
claimThe findings from the Cogitate Consortium study de-emphasize the importance of the prefrontal cortex in consciousness, suggesting that while the prefrontal cortex is important for reasoning and planning, consciousness itself may be linked with sensory processing and perception.
claimThe Cogitate Consortium study suggests that intelligence is about doing, while consciousness is about being.
referenceThe study titled 'Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness' by O. Ferrante et al. (Cogitate Consortium) was published in the journal Nature on April 30, 2025, with the DOI 10.1038/s41586-025-08888-1.
claimThe findings of the Cogitate Consortium study have implications for understanding consciousness and may shed light on disorders of consciousness such as comas or vegetative states.
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated ... comdig.unam.mx May 5, 2025 4 facts
measurementThe Cogitate Consortium measured neural activity in 256 human participants using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) while participants viewed suprathreshold stimuli for variable durations.
perspectiveThe Cogitate Consortium advocates for an alternative approach to cognitive neuroscience that utilizes principled, theory-driven, collaborative research and emphasizes the need for a quantitative framework for systematic theory testing and building.
claimThe Cogitate Consortium found information about conscious content in the visual, ventrotemporal, and inferior frontal cortex, with sustained responses in the occipital and lateral temporal cortex reflecting stimulus duration, and content-specific synchronization between frontal and early visual areas.
claimThe Cogitate Consortium, a group of researchers including Oscar Ferrante, Lucia Melloni, and others, conducted an open science adversarial collaboration to directly compare Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT).
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated ... research.birmingham.ac.uk Jun 5, 2025 3 facts
measurementThe study involved 256 human participants who viewed suprathreshold stimuli for variable durations while their neural activity was measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG).
procedureThe Cogitate Consortium, including theory proponents, developed and preregistered the experimental design, divergent predictions, expected outcomes, and interpretations for the adversarial testing of Integrated Information Theory and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory.
claimThe Cogitate Consortium conducted an open science adversarial collaboration to directly compare Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) regarding how subjective experience arises from brain activity.
Fame in the Brain—Global Workspace Theories of Consciousness psychologytoday.com Oct 28, 2023 3 facts
accountThe COGITATE consortium is conducting a project to test predictions made by Stanislas Dehaene for Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) against predictions made by Giulio Tononi for Integrated Information Theory (IIT).
claimThe Cogitate Consortium's 2023 adversarial collaboration study challenges Integrated Information Theory (IIT) because the observed lack of sustained synchronization within the posterior cortex contradicts the theory's claim that network connectivity specifies consciousness.
claimThe Cogitate Consortium's 2023 adversarial collaboration study challenges Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) due to the observed general lack of ignition at stimulus offset and the limited representation of certain conscious dimensions in the prefrontal cortex.
An adversarial collaboration to critically evaluate theories of ... biorxiv.org Jun 26, 2023 2 facts
claimIntegrated Information Theory (IIT) is challenged by the Cogitate Consortium's finding of a lack of sustained synchronization within the posterior cortex, which contradicts the theory's claim that network connectivity specifies consciousness.
claimGlobal Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) is challenged by the Cogitate Consortium's findings of a general lack of ignition at stimulus offset and limited representation of certain conscious dimensions in the prefrontal cortex.