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Science moves forward,

when minds are willing to change.

Changing
your mind

The study of consciousness sits at the edge of what science can explain. A place where ideas collide, evolve, and sometimes, transform. At Horizon Minds, we believe that science moves forward when minds are willing to change.

This site isn’t just a library of chapters from The Scientific Study of Consciousness. It’s a living space for dialogue: a place where experts, students, postdocs, and deep thinkers from all backgrounds can explore, challenge, and refine ideas together.

We invite you to join the conversation. Share your thoughts, question assumptions, and help shape the evolving landscape of consciousness science. Because real progress doesn’t come from holding firm to old beliefs.

It comes from rethinking what we think we know.

The
Scientific
Study
of
Consciousness

Experimental & Theoretical Approaches

Progress and problems

  • Jaan Aru

  • Francis Fallon

    Tobias Schlicht

    Antti Revonsuo

    Niccolò Negro

    Andrew W. Corcoran

    Liad Mudrik

    Jakob Hohwy

    Johannes J. Fahrenfort

    Simon van Gaal

    Timo Stein

Theories and prediction testing

  • Lucia Melloni

    Umberto Olcese

  • Victor A.F. Lamme

    Lionel Naccache

    Stephen M. Fleming

    Richard Brown

    Axel Cleeremans

    Kwangjun Lee

    Cyriel M.A. Pennartz

    Michael S. A. Graziano

    Giulio Tononi

    Melanie Boly

    Sascha Fink

Human consciousness

  • Athena Demertzi & Thomas Andrillon

  • Nelly Padilla

    Hugo Lagercrantz

    Claudia Passos-Ferreira

    Marie Loescher

    Anthony Clément

    Catherine Tallon-Baudry

    Catherine Duclos

    Athena Demertzi

    Michael J Young

    Marcello Massimini

    Paradeisios Boulakis

    Athena Demertzi

    Jacobo Diego Sitt

    Thomas Andrillon

    Francesca Siclari

    João Patriota

    Umberto Olcese

    Zirui Huang

    Anthony G. Hudetz

    George A. Mashour

    Enzo Tagliazucchi

    Antoine Lutz

    Oussama Abdoun

    Yair Dor-Ziderman

    Fynn-Mathis Trautwein

    Lars Sandved-Smith

    Juan Diego Bogotá

    Julian Kiverstein

    Aviva Berkovich-Ohana

Animal models

  • Umberto Olcese

    Lucia Melloni

  • Kristin Andrews

    Tyler Delmore

    Eva Jablonka

    Simona Ginsburg

    Melanie Wilke

    Ege Kingir

    Theofanis I. Panagiotaropoulos

    Michelle J. Redinbaugh

    Yuri B. Saalmann

    Mototaka Suzuki

    Jaan Aru

    Sabine Gnodde

    Kengo Takahashi

    Umberto Olcese

    Andreas Nieder

Mathematical approaches

  • Johannes Kleiner

    Umberto Olcese

  • Johannes Kleiner

    Lenore Blum

    Manuel Blum

    Larissa Albantakis

    Naotsugu Tsuchiya

Extrapolation to other systems

  • Guillaume Dumas

    Umberto Olcese

  • Eric Elmoznino

    Guillaume Lajoie

    Jonathan Simon

    Yoshua Bengio

    Andrea Lavazza

    Natalie Kastel

    Guillaume Dumas

    Chauncey Maher

    Sabina Craciun

Conclusions and forward looking

  • Lucia Melloni & Umberto Olcese

  • Jaan Aru

    Lucia Melloni

    Umberto Olcese

1

Progress and problems in the study of consiousness

  • Francis Fallon

  • Tobias Schlicht

  • Science and the Fundamental Nature of Subjective Experience

    Antti Revonsuo

  • Jakob Hohwy

  • Alex Gomez-Marin

    At the edges of consciousness: towards a science of experience from within

  • Johannes J. Fahrenfort, Simon van Gaal, Timo Stein

  • Niccolò Negro & Liad Mudrik

2

Theoretical frameworks and their testable predictions

  • Victor A.F. Lamme

  • Lionel Naccache

  • Stephen M. Fleming, Richard Brown & Axel Cleeremans

  • Kwangjun Lee & Cyriel M.A. Pennartz

  • Michael S. A. Graziano

  • Giulio Tononi & Melanie Boly

  • Sascha Fink

  • Lucia Melloni

3

Experimental approaches in human participants

  • Nelly Padilla & Hugo Lagercrantz

  • Claudia Passos-Ferreira

  • Marie Loescher, Anthony Clément & Catherine Tallon-Baudry

  • *Biyu He

  • Catherine Duclos, Athena Demertzi, Michael J Young & Marcello Massimini

  • Paradeisios Boulakis, Athena Demertzi, Jacobo Diego Sitt & Thomas Andrillon

  • Francesca Siclari, João Patriota& Umberto Olcese

  • Zirui Huang, Anthony G. Hudetz & George A. Mashour

  • Enzo Tagliazucchi

  • Antoine Lutz, Oussama Abdoun, Yair Dor-Ziderman, Fynn-Mathis Trautwein, Lars Sandved-Smith, Juan Diego Bogotá, Julian Kiverstein & Aviva Berkovich-Ohana

4

Experimental approaches in animal models

  • Kristin Andrews & Tyler Delmore

  • Eva Joblanka & Simona Ginsburg

  • Melanie Wilke & Ege Kingir

  • Theofanis I. Panagiotaropoulos

  • Michelle J. Redinbaugh & Yuri B. Saalmann

  • Mototaka Suzuki & Jaan Aru

  • Sabine Gnodde, Kengo Takahashi & Umberto Olcese

  • Andreas Nieder

5

Mathematical approaches

  • Johannes Kleiner

  • Lenore Blum & Manuel Blum

  • Larissa Albantakis

  • towards a construction of a Qualia Periodic Table for the dissolution of the Hard Problem of Consciousness

    Naotsugu Tsuchiya

6

Extrapolation to other systems

  • Eric Elmoznino, Guillaume Lajoie, Jonathan Simon & Yoshua Bengio

  • Andrea Lavazza

    Perspectives on Consciousness in Human Brain Organoids

  • Andrea Lavazza

  • Natalie Kastel & Guillaume Dumas

  • Chauncey Maher & Sabina Craciun

7

Conclusions and forward outlook

  • Jaan Aru

  • Lucia Melloni & Umberto Olcese

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