About the Authors

Alireza Zaeemzadeh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zaeemzadeh@wisc.edu (AZ); gtononi@wisc.edu (GT)

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Giulio Tononi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zaeemzadeh@wisc.edu (AZ); gtononi@wisc.edu (GT)

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: G.T. holds an executive position and has a financial interest in Intrinsic Powers, Inc., a company whose purpose is to develop a device that can be used in the clinic to assess the presence and absence of consciousness in patients. This does not pose any conflict of interest with regard to the work undertaken for this publication.