Gustavo Deco

Director, Center of Brain and Cognition, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

Gustavo Deco is an ICREA research professor and full professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. He is also director of the Center of Brain and Cognition. His latest book is The Noisy Brain (2010), co-authored with Edmund Rolls.

Written by Gustavo Deco

Photo of a conductor leading a choir on stage, blue background, choir members in black attire, focus on conductor’s back.

The brain has a team of conductors orchestrating consciousness

The brain is like an orchestra: each region plays its part. But it takes a team of conductors to orchestrate consciousness

by Morten L Kringelbach & Gustavo Deco