Giulio Tononi

78.0k total citations · 27 hit papers
410 papers, 50.2k citations indexed

About

Giulio Tononi is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Giulio Tononi has authored 410 papers receiving a total of 50.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 345 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 120 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 63 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Giulio Tononi's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (208 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (177 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (115 papers). Giulio Tononi is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (208 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (177 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (115 papers). Giulio Tononi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Switzerland. Giulio Tononi's co-authors include Chiara Cirelli, Marcello Massimini, Reto Huber, Olaf Sporns, Fabio Ferrarelli, Mélanie Boly, Christof Koch, Gerald M. Edelman, Brady A. Riedner and Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Giulio Tononi

403 papers receiving 48.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Human Connectome: A Structural Description of the Human Brain

2005 2.2k citations Giulio Tononi et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →
Sleep function and synaptic homeostasis

2005 1.5k citations Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli profile →
Sleep and the Price of Plasticity: From Synaptic and Cellular Homeostasis to Memory Consolidation and Integration

2014 1.4k citations Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli profile →
Local sleep and learning

2004 1.3k citations Maria Felice Ghilardi, Marcello Massimini et al. profile →
Breakdown of Cortical Effective Connectivity During Sleep

2005 1.1k citations Marcello Massimini, Fabio Ferrarelli et al. profile →
An information integration theory of consciousness

2004 951 citations Giulio Tononi profile →
Correlates of Sleep and Waking in Drosophila melanogaster

2000 921 citations Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi et al. profile →
Neural correlates of consciousness: progress and problems

2016 886 citations Christof Koch, Marcello Massimini et al. profile →
Integrated information theory: from consciousness to its physical substrate

2016 866 citations Giulio Tononi, Mélanie Boly et al. profile →
The Sleep Slow Oscillation as a Traveling Wave

2004 859 citations Marcello Massimini, Fabio Ferrarelli et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Consciousness and Anesthesia

2008 832 citations Giulio Tononi et al. profile →
Sleep and synaptic homeostasis: a hypothesis

2003 804 citations Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli profile →
Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto

2008 769 citations Giulio Tononi profile →
A Theoretically Based Index of Consciousness Independent of Sensory Processing and Behavior

2013 721 citations Adenauer G. Casali, Olivia Gosseries et al. profile →
Regional Slow Waves and Spindles in Human Sleep

2011 682 citations Yuval Nir, Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy et al. profile →
Local sleep in awake rats

2011 601 citations Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Umberto Olcese et al. profile →
Molecular and electrophysiological evidence for net synaptic potentiation in wake and depression in sleep

2008 593 citations Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Chiara Cirelli et al. profile →
From the Phenomenology to the Mechanisms of Consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0

2014 577 citations Larissa Albantakis, Giulio Tononi et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →
Diaschisis: past, present, future

2014 532 citations Giulio Tononi et al. profile →
Cortical Firing and Sleep Homeostasis

2009 525 citations Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Umberto Olcese et al. profile →
Complexity and coherency: integrating information in the brain

1998 503 citations Giulio Tononi profile →
Rethinking segregation and integration: contributions of whole-brain modelling

2015 408 citations Giulio Tononi, Mélanie Boly et al. profile →
Consciousness: here, there and everywhere?

2015 402 citations Giulio Tononi, Christof Koch profile →
Ultrastructural evidence for synaptic scaling across the wake/sleep cycle

2017 389 citations Luisa de Vivo, Michele Bellesi et al. profile →
The neural correlates of dreaming

2017 371 citations Francesca Siclari, Giulio Bernardi et al. profile →
Are the Neural Correlates of Consciousness in the Front or in the Back of the Cerebral Cortex? Clinical and Neuroimaging Evidence

2017 338 citations Mélanie Boly, Marcello Massimini et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Integrated information theory (IIT) 4.0: Formulating the properties of phenomenal existence in physical terms

2023 100 citations Larissa Albantakis, Graham Findlay et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Ultrastructural effects of learning and post-learning sleep on the dorsal striatum 2025 ·SLEEP ·(unknown), (unknown), Hirotaka Nagai, (unknown), William Marshall, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	0
2	The Many Unknowns of Partial Sensory Disconnection during Sleep: A Review of the Literature 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi	3
3	System Integrated Information 2023 ·Entropy ·William Marshall, Matteo Grasso, (unknown), Alireza Zaeemzadeh, Leonardo S. Barbosa, Erick Chastain, Graham Findlay, Shuntaro Sasai, Larissa Albantakis, Giulio Tononi	7
4	Sleep/wake changes in perturbational complexity in rats and mice 2023 ·iScience ·Matías Cavelli, (unknown), Graham Findlay, (unknown), (unknown), Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	20
5	Multiple traces and altered signal-to-noise in systems consolidation: Evidence from the 7T fMRI Natural Scenes Dataset 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Mélanie Boly, Emily Allen, Yihan Wu, Thomas Naselaris, Kendrick Kay, Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi	3
6	Quantifying arousal and awareness in altered states of consciousness using interpretable deep learning 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Minji Lee, Leandro Sanz, Alice Barra, (unknown), Jaakko O. Nieminen, Mélanie Boly, Mario Rosanova, Silvia Casarotto, Olivier Bodart, Jitka Annen, Aurore Thibaut, Rajanikant Panda, Vincent Bonhomme, Marcello Massimini, Giulio Tononi, Steven Laureys, Olivia Gosseries, Seong‐Whan Lee	74
7	Sleep and wake in a model of the thalamocortical system with Martinotti cells 2022 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·(unknown), (unknown), Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi	4
8	Effects of Severe Sleep Disruption on the Synaptic Ultrastructure of Young Mice 2021 ·eNeuro ·Hirotaka Nagai, Luisa de Vivo, William Marshall, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	13
9	Identification of ultrastructural signatures of sleep and wake in the fly brain 2021 ·SLEEP ·Carlos C. Flores, (unknown), William Marshall, (unknown), (unknown), Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	6
10	The evolving view of replay and its functions in wake and sleep 2020 ·SLEEP Advances ·Graham Findlay, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	36
11	Visual imagery and visual perception induce similar changes in occipital slow waves of sleep 2019 ·Journal of Neurophysiology ·Giulio Bernardi, Monica Betta, Jacinthe Cataldi, Andrea Leo, José Haba‐Rubio, Raphaël Heinzer, Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi, Pietro Pietrini, Emiliano Ricciardi, Francesca Siclari	20
12	Evidence for sleep-dependent synaptic renormalization in mouse pups 2019 ·SLEEP ·Luisa de Vivo, Hirotaka Nagai, (unknown), (unknown), William Marshall, Michele Bellesi, Kelsey M Nemec, (unknown), (unknown), Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	23
13	Sleep and synaptic down‐selection 2019 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	131
14	Role of Somatostatin-Positive Cortical Interneurons in the Generation of Sleep Slow Waves 2017 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Chadd M. Funk, (unknown), Michele Bellesi, William Marshall, Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi	96
15	Why Does Sleep Slow-Wave Activity Increase After Extended Wake? Assessing the Effects of Increased Cortical Firing During Wake and Sleep 2016 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Alexander V. Rodriguez, Chadd M. Funk, Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Yuval Nir, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	58
16	Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Extended Training during Sleep Deprivation in Humans: Evidence for Local, Task-Specific Effects 2015 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Giulio Bernardi, Francesca Siclari, Xiaoqian Yu, (unknown), Michele Bellesi, Emiliano Ricciardi, Chiara Cirelli, Maria Felice Ghilardi, Pietro Pietrini, Giulio Tononi	95
17	Integrated Information Increases with Fitness in the Evolution of Animats 2011 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Jeffrey A. Edlund, Nicolas Chaumont, Arend Hintze, Christof Koch, Giulio Tononi, Christoph Adami	72
18	Sleep homeostasis in the rat is preserved during chronic sleep restriction 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Umberto Olcese, Claudio L. Bassetti, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	117
19	Breakdown in cortical effective connectivity during midazolam-induced loss of consciousness 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Fabio Ferrarelli, Marcello Massimini, Simone Sarasso, Adenauer G. Casali, Brady A. Riedner, Giuditta Angelini, Giulio Tononi, Robert A. Pearce	393
20	Consciousness : how matter becomes imagination 2001 ·Penguin Books ·Gerald M. Edelman, Giulio Tononi	115

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