@article {5257,
	title = {An adversarial collaboration protocol for testing contrasting predictions of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theory},
	journal = {PLOS ONE},
	volume = {18},
	year = {2023},
	month = {02/2023},
	pages = {e0268577},
	abstract = {<p>The relationship between conscious experience and brain activity has intrigued scientists and philosophers for centuries. In the last decades, several theories have suggested different accounts for these relationships. These theories have developed in parallel, with little to no cross-talk among them. To advance research on consciousness, we established an adversarial collaboration between proponents of two of the major theories in the field, Global Neuronal Workspace and Integrated Information Theory. Together, we devised and preregistered two experiments that test contrasting predictions of these theories concerning the location and timing of correlates of visual consciousness, which have been endorsed by the theories{\textquoteright} proponents. Predicted outcomes should either support, refute, or challenge these theories. Six theory-impartial laboratories will follow the study protocol specified here, using three complementary methods: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Magneto-Electroencephalography (M-EEG), and intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG). The study protocol will include built-in replications, both between labs and within datasets. Through this ambitious undertaking, we hope to provide decisive evidence in favor or against the two theories and clarify the footprints of conscious visual perception in the human brain, while also providing an innovative model of large-scale, collaborative, and open science practice.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0268577},
	url = {https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268577},
	author = {Melloni, Lucia and Mudrik, Liad and Pitts, Michael and Bendtz, Katarina and Ferrante, Oscar and Gorska, Urszula and Hirschhorn, Rony and Khalaf, Aya and Kozma, Csaba and Lepauvre, Alex and Liu, Ling and Mazumder, David and Richter, David and Zhou, Hao and Blumenfeld, Hal and Boly, Melanie and Chalmers, David J. and Devore, Sasha and Fallon, Francis and de Lange, Floris P. and Jensen, Ole and Kreiman, Gabriel and Luo, Huan and Panagiotaropoulos, Theofanis I. and Dehaene, Stanislas and Koch, Christof and Tononi, Giulio},
	editor = {Ward, Lawrence M}
}
@article {4600,
	title = {The inferior temporal cortex is a potential cortical precursor of orthographic processing in untrained monkeys},
	journal = {Nature Communications},
	volume = {11},
	year = {2020},
	month = {08/2020},
	abstract = {<p>The ability to recognize written letter strings is foundational to human reading, but the underlying neuronal mechanisms remain largely unknown. Recent behavioral research in baboons suggests that non-human primates may provide an opportunity to investigate this question. We recorded the activity of hundreds of neurons in V4 and the inferior temporal cortex (IT) while na{\"\i}ve macaque monkeys passively viewed images of letters, English words and non-word strings, and tested the capacity of those neuronal representations to support a battery of orthographic processing tasks. We found that simple linear read-outs of IT (but not V4) population responses achieved high performance on all tested tasks, even matching the performance and error patterns of baboons on word classification. These results show that the IT cortex of untrained primates can serve as a precursor of orthographic processing, suggesting that the acquisition of reading in humans relies on the recycling of a brain network evolved for other visual functions.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-17714-3},
	url = {http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17714-3},
	author = {Rishi Rajalingham and Kohitij Kar and Sachi Sanghavi and Dehaene, Stanislas and James J. DiCarlo}
}
