Fanis Panagiotaropoulos

Researcher
Inserm (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research)

Fanis Panagiotaropoulos received a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Athens, Greece and was later trained in the physiology of cognitive processes in the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany.

Currently he is a researcher for Inserm in NeuroSpin (Paris) and a task leader for Human Brain Project where he studies the neural circuits underlying conscious perception.

His group is using direct recordings of neuronal populations in cortical areas in combination with paradigms that dissociate subjective conscious perception from sensory stimulation. More recently his work involves perturbations of cortical activity through electrical microstimulation and altered states of consciousness like anesthesia.

 

Key publications

  • Kapoor V, Dwarakanath A, Safavi S, Werner J, Besserve M, Panagiotaropoulos TI, Logothetis NK. Decoding internally generated transitions of conscious contents in the prefrontal cortex without subjective reports. Nat Commun. 2022 Mar 22;13(1):1535. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28897-2.

  • Bellet J, Gay M, Dwarakanath A, Jarraya B, van Kerkoerle T, Dehaene S, Panagiotaropoulos TI. Decoding rapidly presented visual stimuli from prefrontal ensembles without report nor post-perceptual processing. Neurosci Conscious. 2022 Feb 24;2022(1):niac005. doi:10.1093/nc/niac005

  • Panagiotaropoulos TI, Deco G, Kapoor V, Logothetis NK. Neuronal discharges and gamma oscillations explicitly reflect visual consciousness in the lateral prefrontal cortex. Neuron. 2012 Jun 7;74(5):924-35. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.04.013.