Spring 2027

Neuroscience of Consciousness and Its Disorders

Examines neural correlates of consciousness and alterations during sleep, anesthesia, coma, and other states. Reviews theories and empirical testing methods, including applications to AI systems.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.76 GPA, 88.6% A/AB (n=35 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.90 GPA, 94.3% A/AB (n=35 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.85 GPA, 96.3% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand approaches used to distinguish between consciousness and its pre-requisites or consequences, and the importance of arousal systems for enabling consciousness.

  • Describe current knowledge about cortical structures involved in specific conscious contents.

  • Understand the complementarity of animal vs. human models to study consciousness.

  • Describe the spectrum of alterations of consciousness present during sleep, parasomnia, anesthesia, coma, seizures, stroke, meditative and psychedelic states, and their neural correlates.

  • Understand possible interactions and dissociations between consciousness, attention and memory.

  • Describe the variety of current theoretical approaches to consciousness and their relevance to infer the presence of consciousness in artificial intelligent systems.

  • Discuss a selection of recent studies - identified shortly before class as providing significant advances and/or reflecting current directions in the consciousness research field – and learn to critically analyze the methodological strengths and limitations of these studies.

  • Understand how to design an experiment probing the neural correlates of consciousness while accounting for its pre-requisites and consequences.

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(PSYCH 454 and ZOOLOGY/​PSYCH 523) or graduate/professional standing

NTP 666

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.76 GPA, 88.6% A/AB (n=35 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.90 GPA, 94.3% A/AB (n=35 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.85 GPA, 96.3% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Neural correlates of consciousness and their alterations during sleep, anesthesia, coma, stroke, seizures, and altered states.
  • Interactions between conscious contents and cognitive processes such as attention and memory.
  • Contemporary theories of consciousness, empirical testing methods, and implications for artificial intelligence.

Skills

  • Designing experiments to probe neural correlates of consciousness and analyzing methodological strengths and limitations of recent studies.
  • Evaluating theoretical approaches to consciousness and their implications for artificial intelligent systems.

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NTP 666 · Spring 2027

Neuroscience of Consciousness and its Disorders

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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