Colloque - Lucia Melloni : Building a Theory of Consciousness, One Collaboration at a Time

Stanislas Dehaene
Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale
Année 2025-2026
Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain
Theme: Perception and Consciousness
Building a Theory of Consciousness, One Collaboration at a Time

Colloque - Lucia Melloni : Building a Theory of Consciousness, One Collaboration at a Time

Lucia Melloni

Résumé

What does it take to transform consciousness from a philosophical puzzle into a scientific theory? Few frameworks have shaped this quest as deeply as Stanislas Dehaene's Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT). By proposing that conscious access arises through large-scale broadcasting and ignition across fronto-parietal networks, GNWT provided both a conceptual framework and concrete, testable predictions