Dr Anil Seth

Biography

BA (MA), Cambridge (1994). M.Sc., Sussex (1996). D.Phil., Sussex (2001). Postdoctoral Fellow & Associate Fellow, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego (2001-2006). Sussex Permanent Faculty (2006-), EPSRC Leadership Fellow (2008-2013), Co-Director of Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science (2010-), Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (2012-)

Role

Co-Director, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science
EPSRC Leadership Fellow

Consciousness science, theoretical and computational neuroscience, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, artificial life, adaptive systems

Convenor of 993C8 MSc Neuroscience of Consciousness.

Student Consultation

Anytime by appointment.

Garfinkel, Sarah, Barrett, Adam, Minati, Ludovico, Dolan, R J, Seth, Anil and Critchley, Hugo (2013) What the heart forgets: cardiac timing influences memory for words and is modulated by metacognition and interoceptive sensitivity. Psychophysiology, 50 (6). pp. 505-512. ISSN 0048-5772

Holle, Henning, Warne, Kimberley, Seth, Anil K, Critchley, Hugo D and Ward, Jamie (2012) Neural basis of contagious itch and why some people are more prone to it. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (48). pp. 19816-18821. ISSN 0027-8424

Harris, Christopher A, Buckley, Christopher L, Nowotny, Thomas, Passaro, Peter A, Seth, Anil K, Kemenes, György and O'Shea, Michael (2012) Multi-neuronal refractory period adapts centrally generated behaviour to reward. PLoS ONE, 7 (7). e42493. ISSN 1932-6203

Seth, Anil K (2012) Putting Descartes before the horse: quantum theories of consciousness: comment on "Consciousness, biology, and quantum hypotheses" by Baars & Edelman. Physics of Life Reviews. ISSN 1571-0645

Critchley, Hugo and Seth, Anil (2012) Will studies of macaque insula reveal the neural mechanisms of self-awareness? Neuron, 74 (3). pp. 423-426. ISSN 0896-6273

Minati, Ludovico, Grisoli, Marina, Seth, Anil K and Critchley, Hugo D (2012) Decision-making under risk: a graph-based network analysis using functional MRI. Neurolmage, 60 (4). pp. 2191-2205. ISSN 1053-8119

Bor, Daniel and Seth, Anil K (2012) Consciousness and the prefrontal parietal network: insights from attention, working memory, and chunking. Frontiers in Psychology, 3. p. 63. ISSN 1664-1078

Seth, Anil K, Suzuki, Keisuke and Critchley, Hugo D (2012) An interoceptive predictive coding model of conscious presence. Frontiers in Psychology, 2. p. 395. ISSN 1664-1078

Barrett, Adam B, Murphy, Michael, Bruno, Marie-Aurelie, Noirhomme, Quentin, Boly, Melanie, Laureys, Steven and Seth, Anil K (2012) Granger causality analysis of steady-state electroencephalographic signals during propofol-induced anaesthesia. PLoS ONE, 7 (1). e29072. ISSN 1932-6203

Barnett, Lionel and Seth, Anil K (2011) Behaviour of Granger causality under filtering: Theoretical invariance and practical application. Journal of Neuroscience Methods.

Seth, Anil K, Barrett, Adam B and Barnett, Lionel (2011) Causal density and integrated information as measures of conscious level. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 369 (1952). pp. 3748-3767. ISSN 1471-2962

Barrett, Adam B and Seth, Anil K (2011) Practical measures of integrated information for time series data. PLoS Computational Biology, 7 (1). e1001052. ISSN 1553-734X

Bressler, Steven L and Seth, Anil K (2011) Wiener-Granger causality: A well established methodology. NeuroImage, 58 (2). pp. 323-329. ISSN 1053-8119

Seth, Anil K (2010) Measuring autonomy and emergence via Granger causality. Artificial Life, 16 (2). pp. 179-196. ISSN 10645462

Seth, Anil (2009) Animal consciousness: A synthetic approach. Trends in Neurosciences, 32 (9). pp. 476-484. ISSN 01662236

Seth, Anil (2009) Explanatory Correlates of Consciousness: Theoretical and Computational Challenges. Cognitive Computation, 1 (1). pp. 50-63. ISSN 18669956

Seth, Anil (2009) The strength of weak artificial consciousness. International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 1 (1). pp. 71-82. ISSN 17938430

Seth, Anil K and Edelman, Gerald M (2009) Consciousness and complexity. In: Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer. ISBN 9780387758886

Baars, B J and Seth, A K (2009) Theories and models of consciousness. In: Elsevier Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier. ISBN 9780080450469

Clowes, Robert W and Seth, Anil K (2008) Axioms, properties and criteria: Roles for synthesis in the science of consciousness. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 44 (2). pp. 91-104. ISSN 0933-3657

Seth, Anil K (2008) Theories and measures of consciousness develop together. Consciousness and Cognition, 17 (3). pp. 986-988. ISSN 10538100

Seth, Anil (2008) Post-decision wagering measures metacognitive content, not sensory consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 17 (3). pp. 981-983. ISSN 10538100

Seth, Anil (2008) Measuring emergence via nonlinear Granger causality. In: Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems.

Seth, Anil K, Dienes, Zoltán, Cleeremans, Axel, Overgaard, Morten and Pessoa, Luiz (2008) Measuring consciousness: Relating behavioural and neurophysiological measures. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12 (8). pp. 314-321. ISSN 1364-6613

Seth, Anil K, McKinstry, Jeffrey L, Edelman, Gerald M and Krichmar, Jeffrey L (2008) Embodied models of delayed neural responses: Spatiotemporal categorization and predictive motor control in brain-based devices. Neural Networks, 21 (4). pp. 553-561. ISSN 08936080

Chorley, Paul and Seth, Anil K (2008) Closing the sensory-motor loop on dopamine signalled reinforcement learning. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior.

Bermudez, Edgar J, Philippides, Andrew and Seth, Anil K (2008) Movement strategies for learning in visual recognition. In: Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems.

Seth, Anil (2007) The ecology of action selection: insights from artificial life. In: Workshop on Modelling Natural Action Selection; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Seth, Anil, Prescott, Tony and Bryson, Joanna, eds. (2007) Modelling natural action selection. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Series B, 362 (1485). Royal Society.

Seth, Anil K and Edelman, Gerald M (2007) Distinguishing causal interactions in neural populations. Neural Computation, 19 (4). pp. 910-933. ISSN 0899-7667

Seth, Anil K (2007) The functional utility of consciousness depends on content as well as on state. p. 106. ISSN 0140-525X

Seth, Anil (2007) Granger causality. Scholarpedia, 2 (7). p. 1667. ISSN 19416016

Seth, Anil (2007) Measuring autonomy by multivariate autoregressive modelling. In: 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, Lisbon, Portugal.

Prescott, Tony J, Bryson, Joanna J and Seth, Anil K (2007) Modelling natural action selection: Introduction to the theme issue. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 362 (1485). pp. 1521-1529. ISSN 1471-2970

Seth, Anil (2007) Models of consciousness. Scholarpedia, 2 (1). p. 1328. ISSN 19416016

Contreras, Edgar Bermudez and Seth, Anil K (2007) Simulations of simulations in evolutionary robotics. In: Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life.

Seth, Anil K, Iversen, John R and Edelman, Gerald M (2006) Single trial discrimination of truthful from deceptive responses during a game of financial risk using alpha-band MEG signals. Neuroimage, 32 (1). pp. 465-476. ISSN 1053-8119

Seth, Anil K, Izhikevich, Eugene, Reeke, George N and Edelman, Gerald M (2006) Theories and measures of consciousness: An extended framework. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103 (28). pp. 10799-10804. ISSN 0027-8424

Seth, Anil (2005) Causal connectivity of evolved neural networks during behavior. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 16 (1). pp. 35-54. ISSN 0954-898X

Krichmar, Jeffrey L, Seth, Anil K, Nitz, Douglas A, Fleischer, Jason G and Edelman, Gerald M (2005) Spatial navigation and causal analysis in a brain-based device having detailed cortical-hippocampal interactions. Neuroinformatics, 3 (3). pp. 197-221. ISSN 1539-2791

Seth, Anil K, Baars, Bernard J and Edelman, David B (2005) Criteria for consciousness in humans and other mammals. Consciousness and Cognition, 14 (1). pp. 119-139. ISSN 1053-8100

Edelman, David E, Baars, Bernard J and Seth, Anil K (2005) Identifying hallmarks of consciousness in non-mammalian species. Consciousness and Cognition, 14 (1). pp. 169-187. ISSN 1053-8100

Seth, Anil K and Baars, Bernard J (2005) Neural Darwinism and consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 14 (1). pp. 140-168. ISSN 1053-8100

Seth, Anil K, Sporns, Olaf and Krichmar, Jeffrey L (2005) Neurorobotic models in neuroscience and neuroinformatics. pp. 167-170. ISSN 1539-2791

Seth, Anil K, McKinstry, Jeffrey L, Edelman, Gerald M and Krichmar, Jeffrey L (2004) Visual binding through reentrant connectivity and dynamic synchronization in a brain-based device. Cerebral Cortex, 14 (11). pp. 1185-1199. ISSN 1047-3211

Seth, Anil K and Edelman, Gerald M (2004) Environment and behavior influence the complexity of evolved neural networks. Adaptive Behavior, 12 (1). pp. 5-20. ISSN 1059-7123

Chen, Yanqing, Seth, Anil K, Gally, Joseph A and Edelman, Gerald M (2003) The power of human brain magnetoencephalographic signals can be modulated up or down by changes in an attentive visual task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100 (6). pp. 3501-3506. ISSN 0027-8424

Seth, Anil (2002) Modelling group foraging: Individual suboptimality, interference, and a kind of matching. Adaptive Behavior, 9 (2). pp. 67-90. ISSN 10597123

Seth, Anil (1998) Evolving action selection and selective attention without action, attention, or selection. In: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Cambridge, MA.