[HTML][HTML] Information decomposition and the informational architecture of the brain

AI Luppi, FE Rosas, PAM Mediano, DK Menon… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
To explain how the brain orchestrates information-processing for cognition, we must
understand information itself. Importantly, information is not a monolithic entity. Information …

Multivariate information theory uncovers synergistic subsystems of the human cerebral cortex

TF Varley, M Pope, J Faskowitz, O Sporns - Communications biology, 2023 - nature.com
One of the most well-established tools for modeling the brain is the functional connectivity
network, which is constructed from pairs of interacting brain regions. While powerful, the …

Partial entropy decomposition reveals higher-order information structures in human brain activity

TF Varley, M Pope, Maria Grazia, Joshua… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
The standard approach to modeling the human brain as a complex system is with a network,
where the basic unit of interaction is a pairwise link between two brain regions. While …

Information-processing dynamics in neural networks of macaque cerebral cortex reflect cognitive state and behavior

TF Varley, O Sporns, S Schaffelhofer… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
One of the essential functions of biological neural networks is the processing of information.
This includes everything from processing sensory information to perceive the environment …

A synergistic workspace for human consciousness revealed by integrated information decomposition

AI Luppi, PAM Mediano, FE Rosas, J Allanson… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
How is the information-processing architecture of the human brain organised, and how does
its organisation support consciousness? Here, we combine network science and a rigorous …

Generalized decomposition of multivariate information

TF Varley - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Since its introduction, the partial information decomposition (PID) has emerged as a
powerful, information-theoretic technique useful for studying the structure of (potentially …

[HTML][HTML] Untangling synergistic effects of intersecting social identities with partial information decomposition

TF Varley, P Kaminski - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
The theory of intersectionality proposes that an individual's experience of society has
aspects that are irreducible to the sum of one's various identities considered individually, but …

[HTML][HTML] Evolving higher-order synergies reveals a trade-off between stability and information-integration capacity in complex systems

TF Varley, J Bongard - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
There has recently been an explosion of interest in how “higher-order” structures emerge in
complex systems comprised of many interacting elements (often called “synergistic” …

Behavioural relevance of redundant and synergistic stimulus information between functionally connected neurons in mouse auditory cortex

L Koçillari, M Celotto, NA Francis, S Mukherjee… - Brain Informatics, 2023 - Springer
Measures of functional connectivity have played a central role in advancing our
understanding of how information is transmitted and processed within the brain …

Quantum partial information decomposition

SJ van Enk - Physical Review a, 2023 - APS
Partial information decomposition (PID) takes one step beyond Shannon's theory in
decomposing the information two variables, A and B, possess about a third variable, T, into …