About the Authors

Melanie Boly

boly@wisc.edu (MB); gtononi@wisc.edu (GT)

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Shuntaro Sasai

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

Olivia Gosseries

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre and Department of Neurology, University of Liege and CHU Sart Tilman Hospital, Liege, Belgium

Masafumi Oizumi

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Riken Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Adenauer Casali

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ‘Luigi Sacco’, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Marcello Massimini

Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ‘Luigi Sacco’, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Instituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan, Italy

Giulio Tononi

boly@wisc.edu (MB); gtononi@wisc.edu (GT)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB GT MM. Performed the experiments: MB OG. Analyzed the data: MB OG SS AC MM GT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MO AC MM. Wrote the paper: MB SS OG MO AC MM GT.