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ArticleNature2025

Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness.

Cogitate Consortium, Oscar Ferrante, Urszula Gorska-Klimowska, Simon Henin, Rony Hirschhorn, Aya Khalaf, Alex Lepauvre, Ling Liu, David Richter, Yamil Vidal and 32 more

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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51citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

42 authors.

Cogitate Consortium
Oscar Ferrante *Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6869-7041
Urszula Gorska-Klimowska *Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3808-337X
Simon Henin *Department of Neurology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0997-3266
Rony Hirschhorn *Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-7710-5159
Aya Khalaf *Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3736-580X
Alex Lepauvre *Neural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4191-1578
Ling Liu *School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7041-2508
David Richter *Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3404-8374
Yamil Vidal *Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8011-8030
Niccolò BonacchiWilliam James Center for Research, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-5228-6918
Tanya BrownNeural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6515-9715
Praveen SripadNeural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6361-2571
Marcelo ArmendarizBoston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7905-1104
Katarina BendtzBoston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8262-3652
Tara GhafariCentre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5178-8702
Dorottya HetenyiCentre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.ORCID 0009-0002-2359-9960
Jay JeschkeDepartment of Neurology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Csaba KozmaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1894-4611
David R MazumderBoston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5609-7505
Stephanie MontenegroDepartment of Neurology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Alia SeedatDepartment of Neurology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-5119-9966
Abdelrahman SharafeldinGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID 0009-0000-2706-0300
Shujun YangDepartment of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0009-0006-9900-3843
Sylvain BailletMontreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6762-5713
David J ChalmersDepartment of Philosophy, New York University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4190-3161
Radoslaw M CichyDepartment of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4190-6071
Francis FallonPhilosophy Department, Psychology Department, St John's University, Queens, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8534-5774
Theofanis I PanagiotaropoulosDepartment of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-4621-1183
Hal BlumenfeldDepartment of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0812-8132
Floris P de LangeDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6730-1452
Sasha DevoreDepartment of Neurology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2554-1850
Ole JensenWellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8193-8348
Gabriel KreimanBoston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3505-8475
Huan LuoSchool of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8349-9796
Melanie BolyDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9584-0907
Stanislas DehaeneCognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin Center, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID 0000-0002-7418-8275
Christof KochAllen Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6482-8067
Giulio TononiDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3892-4087
Michael PittsPsychology Department, Reed College, Portland, OR, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9824-3443
Liad MudrikSagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-3564-6445
Lucia MelloniDepartment of Neurology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. lucia.mellonibuljevic@rub.de.ORCID 0000-0001-8743-5071

Funding

Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM144273 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI David Shumway Jones, Jacqueline A. Lees · 2022 to 2026
$14.7M
Max Planck SocietNIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM144273
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Different theories explain how subjective experience arises from brain activity

Indexed as

BrainConsciousnessInformation TheoryModels, NeurologicalNeuronsAdultElectroencephalographyFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMagnetoencephalographyMaleYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID40307561
PMCPMC12137136

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