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