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Stanislas Dehaene
Also known as: Dehaene, S., S. Dehaene
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What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved quantamagazine.org Aug 24, 2023 8 facts
claimStanislas Dehaene, a neuroscientist at the Collège de France and architect of Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT), considers thinking to be a core component of the conscious state.
perspectiveStanislas Dehaene argued that the hurdles for Integrated Information Theory (IIT) were set lower than those for Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT), noting that the experiment did not test the complex mathematical core of IIT.
quoteStanislas Dehaene stated: “The ‘workspace’ is there for a function.”
perspectiveStanislas Dehaene preferred an experimental design involving subjects playing a distracting Tetris-like video game while being exposed to images, because he believed it provided a clearer contrast between conscious and unconscious mental states.
claimThe March 2018 workshop at the Allen Institute included theorists Stanislas Dehaene, Giulio Tononi, and Hakwan Lau (who champions Higher-Order Theories), as well as David Chalmers, and representatives from the Templeton Foundation.
claimStanislas Dehaene claimed that the failure to detect an 'off' signal in the experiment occurred because subjects allowed their minds to wander, causing consciousness to become decoupled from the stimulus.
claimStanislas Dehaene developed Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) by applying Bernard Baars' conceptual template to neuroscience findings and using computational models.
quoteStanislas Dehaene stated regarding Integrated Information Theory (IIT): “It’s a big difference between our theories. I don’t believe in purified consciousness.”
Global workspace theory: consciousness as brain wide information ... selfawarepatterns.com Dec 29, 2019 6 facts
claimStanislas Dehaene's global neuronal workspace is a variant of global workspace theory that currently holds significant support.
claimStanislas Dehaene argues that some brain regions, particularly executive ones, possess higher connectivity than others, and that very early sensory regions likely cannot generate workspace content except indirectly through later sensory layers.
claimBoth Bernard Baars and Stanislas Dehaene agree that subcortical regions generally cannot contribute directly to the global workspace, though Bernard Baars considers the hippocampus a possible exception.
claimStanislas Dehaene emphasizes the role of the prefrontal cortex in the global workspace, while acknowledging that the parietal, temporal, and other regions within the frontoparietal network are also significant contributors.
claimStanislas Dehaene and Bernard Baars have authored books containing a wealth of empirical data regarding Global Workspace Theory.
claimStanislas Dehaene suggests that all mammals, and possibly birds, likely possess a global workspace and are therefore conscious.
Workspace vs integration: results starting to come in selfawarepatterns.com Jun 26, 2023 4 facts
measurementThe results of the second set of experiments that Stanislas Dehaene is waiting on are expected to be available in approximately one year from June 2023.
claimStanislas Dehaene and the research team plan to present a subsequent Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF)-funded experiment, which uses a design preferred by Dehaene, at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) meeting next year.
claimStanislas Dehaene, the chief proponent of Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT), stated that the design of the adversarial collaboration experiment compromised the sensitivity of signal decoding from the front of the brain, which would have supported GNWT.
claimStanislas Dehaene is waiting on the results of a second set of experiments related to neurobiological theories of consciousness.
Fame in the Brain—Global Workspace Theories of Consciousness psychologytoday.com Oct 28, 2023 4 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).
quoteStanislas Dehaene stated on X (formerly Twitter): 'While not a big fan of the recent ‘pseudoscience’ name-calling, I have to confess that, like my 124 colleagues, I am quite disappointed by IIT's inability to make anything but banal predictions concerning the recent ARC-Cogitate adversarial collaboration.'
claimStanislas Dehaene predicted that the COGITATE study would show greater brain activity in the front of the brain, while Giulio Tononi predicted that activity would be mainly in the back of the brain.
perspectiveStanislas Dehaene expressed confidence that a second ongoing experiment by the COGITATE project will favor Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT).
Global workspace theory - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 4 facts
referenceRaphaël Gaillard, Stanislas Dehaene, Claude Adam, Stéphane Clémenceau, Dominique Hasboun, Michel Baulac, Laurent Cohen, and Lionel Naccache authored 'Converging Intracranial Markers of Conscious Access', published in PLOS Biology on 17 March 2009.
referenceSid Kouider and Stanislas Dehaene authored 'Levels of processing during non-conscious perception: a critical review of visual masking', published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on 29 May 2007.
claimStanislas Dehaene extended Global workspace theory with the 'neuronal avalanche' concept, which describes how sensory information is selected for broadcast throughout the cortex.
referenceStanislas Dehaene authored the book 'Consciousness and the Brain', published by Viking in 2015.
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and ... - Nature nature.com Apr 30, 2025 3 facts
claimStanislas Dehaene is a co-inventor on patent 2019 EP 2983586, titled 'Methods to monitor consciousness', and is an associate at NeuroMeters, a company that applies these methods in clinical practice.
claimThe initial conceptualization of the experiment and development of predictions for the adversarial collaboration were conducted by D.J.C., F.F., H.B., Stanislas Dehaene, Christof Koch, Giulio Tononi, L. Mudrik, M.P., and L. Melloni.
claimStanislas Dehaene served as the proponent for the Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) in the adversarial collaboration.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 3 facts
perspectiveStanislas Dehaene claims that conscious perception begins only with the 'ignition' of the global network, asserting that activity in primary sensory areas alone is insufficient for consciousness regardless of intensity or recurrence.
perspectiveSupporters of the global neuronal workspace model, such as Stanislas Dehaene (2000), argue that consciousness requires contents to be activated with a large-scale pattern of recurrent activity involving frontal, parietal, and primary sensory areas of the cortex.
claimStanislas Dehaene and others developed the Global Workspace Theory model in 2000 by proposing connections to specific neural and functional brain systems.
The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimGlobal Workspace Theory (GWT), originally proposed by Bernard Baars in 1988 and expanded by Stanislas Dehaene in 2014, suggests that consciousness arises when information is widely broadcast across the brain, allowing different areas to integrate and share information for decision-making, memory, and action.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimPhilosophers Daniel Dennett, Massimo Pigliucci, Thomas Metzinger, Patricia Churchland, and Keith Frankish, along with cognitive neuroscientists Stanislas Dehaene, Bernard Baars, Anil Seth, and Antonio Damasio, reject the existence of the hard problem of consciousness.
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated ... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1 fact
claimS. Dehaene is a co-inventor on patent 2019 EP 2983586 ('Methods to monitor consciousness') and is an associate at NeuroMeters, a company that applies these methods in clinical practice.
GWT: A Leading Consciousness Theory Depends on Information ... mindmatters.ai Oct 15, 2021 1 fact
referenceIn 1998, neuroscientists Stanislas Dehaene, Michael Kerszberg, and Jean-Pierre Changeux proposed the global neuronal workspace hypothesis, a modification of Global Workspace Theory where associative perceptual, motor, attention, memory, and value areas interconnect to form a higher-level unified space in which information is broadly shared and broadcast back to lower-level processors.
Consciousness and AI - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Feb 5, 2026 1 fact
claimBernard Baars (1993), Stanislas Dehaene et al. (2017), and Hakwan Lau (2022) suggest that it is possible to implement functional features of the brain, such as information gating mechanisms, in conventional computational systems.
Rethinking Consciousness: When Science Puts Itself to the Test maxplanckneuroscience.org May 14, 2025 1 fact
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).
(PDF) Unifying Theories of Consciousness, Attention, and ... academia.edu 1 fact
referenceDehaene, S., & Naccache, L. (2001) propose a workspace framework for the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness in their paper 'Towards a cognitive neuroscience of consciousness: Basic evidence and a workspace framework' published in Cognition.
Are we ever aware of concepts? A critical question for the Global ... academic.oup.com 1 fact
claimStanislas Dehaene's Global Neuronal Workspace Theory is identified as one of the most prominent neuroscientific theories of consciousness.