Publications

Bruno S, Mat B, Schaeffer EL, Haber I, Fan Z, Prahl SP, Wilcox MR, Strainis E, Loring MD, Alauddin T, Smith RF, Achermann P, Beerli S, Capstick M, Neufeld E, Kuster N, Marshall W, Albantakis L, Jones SG, Cirelli C, Boly M, Tononi G (2026) Thalamic transcranial electrical stimulation with temporal interference enhances sleep spindle activity during a daytime nap. Sleep Adv zpag069. 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpag069

Schaeffer EL, Haber I, Fan Z, Bruno S, Mat B, Alauddin T, Vigueras G, Neumann L, Smith R, Missey F, Williamson A, Achermann P, Beerli S, Capstick M, Neufeld E, Kuster N, Goldman RI, Davidson RJ, Marshall W, Albantakis L, Jones SG, Cirelli C, Boly M, Tononi G (2026) Enhancement of sleep slow wave activity using transcranial electrical stimulation with temporal interference: an interim analysis of the STRENGTHEN study. Commun Med. doi: 10.1038/s43856-026-01744-x

Albantakis L, Tononi G (2026) Precision Neuromodulation in Psychiatry: Focus on Temporal Interference Stimulation. Am J Psychiatry. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20250873

David I, Sasai S, de Paiva FB, Boly M, Tononi G, Albantakis L (2026) Distance- and hierarchy-dependent functional dysconnectivity in schizophrenia and its association with cortical microstructure. NeuroImage: Clinical 103958. 10.1016/j.nicl.2026.103958

Castelnovo A, D’Agostino A, Mayeli A, Albantakis L, Tononi G, Ferrarelli F (2025) Sleep Spindle Abnormalities as Neurophysiological Biomarkers of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: From Cellular Mechanisms and Neural Circuits to Clinical Implications. Biological Psychiatry. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.06.014

Marshall W, Findlay G, Albantakis L, Tononi G (2026) Intrinsic units: identifying a system’s causal grain. Neuroscience of Consciousness, niag013. 10.1093/nc/niag013

Hu Z, Cingiler O, Bohm C, Albantakis L (2025) From Function to Implementation: Exploring Degeneracy in Evolved Artificial Agents. Neural Comput 37:1677–1708. doi: 10.1162/neco.a.19

Tononi G et al. (2025) Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? A clash of two paradigms. Nat Neurosci 28, 694-702. doi: 10.1038/s41593-025-01880-y

Albantakis L, Bernard C, Brenner N, Marder E, Narayanan R (2024) The Brain’s Best Kept Secret Is Its Degenerate Structure. J Neurosci, 44 (40) e1339242024. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1339-24.2024

Albantakis L*, Barbosa L*, Findlay G*, Grasso M*, Haun AM*, Marshall* WP, Mayner* WG, Zaeemzadeh A*, Boly M, Juel BE, Sasai S, Fujii K, David I, Hendren J, Lang JP, & Tononi G (2023) Integrated information theory (IIT) 4.0: Formulating the properties of phenomenal existence in physical terms. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(10), e1011465. doi: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PCBI.1011465

Albantakis L, Prentner R, Durham I (2023) Computing the Integrated Information of a Quantum Mechanism. Entropy 2023, Vol 25, Page 449 25:449. doi: 10.3390/E25030449

Marshall W, Grasso M, Mayner WG, Zaeemzadeh A, Barbosa LS, Chastain E, Findlay G, Sasai S, Albantakis L, Tononi G (2023) System Integrated Information. Entropy 2023, Vol 25, Page 334 25:334. doi: 10.3390/E25020334

Albantakis L (2021) Quantifying the Autonomy of Structurally Diverse Automata: A Comparison of Candidate Measures. Entropy, 23(11): 1415. doi: 10.3390/e23111415

Grasso* M, Albantakis* L, Lang JP, Tononi G (2021) Causal reductionism and causal structures. Nature Neuroscience, 24: 1348-1355. doi: 10.1038/s41593-021-00911-8

Albantakis L, Marshall W, Hoel E, Tononi G (2019) What Caused What? A Quantitative Account of Actual Causation Using Dynamical Causal Networks. Entropy, 21:459. doi: 10.3390/e21050459

Albantakis L, Tononi G (2019) Causal Composition: Structural Differences among Dynamically Equivalent Systems. Entropy, 2019, Vol 21, Page 989 21:989. doi: 10.3390/e21100989

Marshall W, Albantakis L, Tononi G (2018) Black-boxing and cause-effect power. PLOS Comput Biol, 14:e1006114. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006114

Marshall W, Kim H, Walker SI, Tononi G, Albantakis L (2017) How causal analysis can reveal autonomy in models of biological systems. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 375:20160358. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0358

Hoel EP, Albantakis L, Marshall W, Tononi G (2016) Can the macro beat the micro? Integrated information across spatiotemporal scales. Neurosci Conscious, 2016. doi: 10.1093/nc/niw012

Albantakis L, Tononi G (2015) The Intrinsic Cause-Effect Power of Discrete Dynamical Systems—From Elementary Cellular Automata to Adapting Animats. Entropy, 17:5472–5502. doi: 10.3390/e17085472

Albantakis L, Hintze A, Koch C, Adami C, Tononi G (2014) Evolution of Integrated Causal Structures in Animats Exposed to Environments of Increasing Complexity. PLoS Comput Biol, 10:e1003966. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003966

Oizumi* M, Albantakis* L, Tononi G (2014) From the Phenomenology to the Mechanisms of Consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0. PLoS Comput Biol, 10:e1003588. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003588

Hoel EP, Albantakis L, Tononi G (2013) Quantifying causal emergence shows that macro can beat micro. PNAS, 110:19790–19795. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1314922110