Giulio Tononi | |
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| Born | 1960 Trento, Italy |
| Alma mater | Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies |
| Known for | Sleep research, integrated information theory, consciousness studies |
| Awards | NIH Director's Pioneer award (2005) |
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| Fields | Psychology, neuroscience |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Pisa University of California at San Diego |
| Notable students | Erik Hoel |
Giulio Tononi (Italian: [ˈdʒuːljo toˈnoːni]) is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who holds the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, as well as a Distinguished Chair in Consciousness Science, at the University of Wisconsin. He is best known for his Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a mathematical theory of consciousness, which he has proposed since 2004.[1][2]
- ^ Oizumi, Masafumi; Albantakis, Larissa; Tononi, Giulio (2014-05-08). "From the Phenomenology to the Mechanisms of Consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0". PLOS Comput Biol. 10 (5): e1003588. Bibcode:2014PLSCB..10E3588O. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003588. PMC 4014402. PMID 24811198.
- ^ Tononi, Giulio (22 January 2015). "Integrated information theory". Scholarpedia. 10 (1): 4164. Bibcode:2015SchpJ..10.4164T. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.4164.