Research ArticleConsciousness
A Theoretically Based Index of Consciousness Independent of Sensory Processing and Behavior
- Adenauer G. Casali1,*,†,
- Olivia Gosseries2,*,
- Mario Rosanova1,
- Mélanie Boly2,‡,
- Simone Sarasso1,
- Karina R. Casali1,3,
- Silvia Casarotto1,
- Marie-Aurélie Bruno2,
- Steven Laureys2,
- Giulio Tononi4 and
- Marcello Massimini1,5,§
- 1Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ‘Luigi Sacco’, University of Milan, 20157 Milan, Italy.
- 2Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre and Neurology Department, University and University Hospital of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
- 3Institute of Science and Technology, Federal University of São Paulo, 12231-280 São José dos Campos, Brazil.
- 4Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53719, USA.
- 5Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, 20148 Milan, Italy.
- ↵§Corresponding author. E-mail: marcello.massimini{at}unimi.it
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↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
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↵† Present address: Faculty of Medicine Clinics Hospital, University of São Paulo, 05403-000 São Paulo, Brazil.
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↵‡ Present address: Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53719, USA.
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Science Translational Medicine 14 Aug 2013:
Vol. 5, Issue 198, pp. 198ra105
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3006294
