title: Estimating integrated information with TMS pulses during wakefulness, sleep, and under anesthesia.
abstract: This paper relates a recently proposed measure of information integration to experiments investigating the evoked high-density electroencephalography (EEG) response to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) during wakefulness, early non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and under anesthesia. We show that bistability, arising at the cellular and population level during NREM sleep and under anesthesia, dramatically reduces the brain's ability to integrate information.
authors.affiliation: MPI for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany. balduzzi@tuebingen.mpg.de
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Balduzzi
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D005133:Eye Movements; D012890:Sleep; D050781:Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; D014851:Wakefulness