bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/511766; this version posted January 4, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Increased spontaneous EEG signal diversity during stroboscopically-induced altered states of consciousness Abbreviated title: EEG signal diversity during stroboscopic hallucinations David J. Schwartzman a,b*, Michael Schartner b,c, Benjamin B. Ador d, Francesca Simonelli e, Acer Y.-C. Chang b,f , Anil K. Seth a,b,g a Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom b Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom c Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales, Université de Genève, 1206, Genève d Master de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Université de Lyon, 69342, Lyon, Cedex 07, France e IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy f Department of Neuroinformatics, Araya Brain Imaging, Tokyo, Japan g Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Azrieli Programme in Brain, Mind, and Consciousness *
[email protected] bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/511766; this version posted January 4, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Abstract What are the global neuronal signatures of altered states of consciousness (ASC)? Recently, increases in neural signal diversity, compared to those found in wakeful rest, have been reported during psychedelic states.