Stanislas Dehaene
Adversary - Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT)
Professor of Psychiatry @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dehaene’s work on the neural correlates of consciousness has lead to numerous scientific articles, an edited book, "The Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness" and is the Past President of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Dehaene has developed computational models of consciousness, based on Bernard Baars's Global Workspace Theory, which suggest that only one piece of information can gain access to a "global neuronal workspace".
Key publications:
Dehaene S., Naccache L., Le Clec'h G., Koechlin E., Mueller M., Dehaene-Lambertz G., Van De Moortele P.F., & Le Bihan D., "Imaging unconscious semantic priming", Nature, 395 (1998), 597-600.
Dehaene S., Spelke L., Pinel P., Stanescu R., & Tsivkin S., "Sources of mathematical thinking: Behavioral and brain-imaging evidence", Science, 284 (1999), 970-974.
Dehaene S., Naccache L., Cohen L., Le Bihan D., Mangin J.F., Poline J. B. & Riviere D., "Cerebral mechanisms of word masking and unconscious repetition priming", Nature Neuroscience, 4 (2001), 752-758.
Sergent C., Baillet S., & Dehaene S., "Timing of the brain events underlying access to consciousness during the attentional blink". Nature Neuroscience, 8 (2005), 1391-1400.
Del Cul A., Baillet S., Dehaene S., "Brain dynamics underlying the non-linear threshold for access to consciousness", PLOS Biology, (2007), 5(10), e260.