My research featured on the cover of Entropy issue, Vol. 19, Issue 5.

Publications

• Hoel E (2017). Actual Causation. ArXiv (under submission at a peer-reviewed journal).
• Hoel E (2017). When the map is better than the territory. Entropy, 19(5), 188.
• Hoel E (2017). Agent Above, Atom Below. Included in the 2017 FQXi book, "Wandering Toward a Goal."
• Aubert-Kato N, Witkowski O, Hoel E, Bredeche N. (2016) Towards Detecting the Emergence of Agency in Evolved Artificial Chemistries. Carlos Gershenson, Tom Froese, Jesus M. Siqueiros, Wendy Aguilar, Eduardo J. Izquierdo and Hiroki Sayama (eds.), Artificial Life XV: Late- Breaking Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 20–21.
• Hoel E, Albantakis L, Tononi G (2016). Integrated information and the spatiotemporal scale of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness.
• Hoel E, Albantakis L, Tononi G (2016) Synaptic refinement and its effect on slow waves - a computational study. Journal of Neurophysiology.
• Hoel E, Albantakis L, Tononi G (2013) Quantifying causal emergence shows that macro can beat micro. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  
  

Posters

• Aubert-Kato N, Witkowski O, Hoel E, Bredeche N. (2016) Decision Making in Messy Chemistries: Case Study with an Invasion-based Reaction Diffusion Scenario. Proceedings of the International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation.
• Hoel E, Albantakis L, Tononi G. (2015) The spatial and temporal scale of conscious experience, presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
• Hoel E, Albantakis L, Tononi G. (2014) Synaptic refinement and brain organization. Presented at the Neuroscience Research Symposium of the Neuroscience Training Program.
• Albantakis L, Hoel E, Koch C, Tononi G (2013) Intrinsic Causation and Consciousness. Association for the scientific study of consciousness conference (ASSC17).
• Hoel E, Albantakis L & Tononi G (2012) The ‘neural code’ from the intrinsic perspective: Quantifying causal power at different spatio-temporal scales. Front. Comput. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: Bernstein Conference 2012.
• Hoel E, Hogan M. (2010) The network properties of conscious experience: 'small worlds', clusters, and functional connectivity. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC14).
• Couperus JW, Hoel E, Alperin B. (2009) Perceptual load modifies processing of distractor stimuli both in the presence and absence of target stimuli. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
  
  

Research talks

• (2016, Invited) “Literature and the Hard Problem of Consciousness” presented at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA.
• (2016) “Brain Organization and Integrated Information” for the public defense portion of the PhD for the Neuroscience Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
• (2015, Invited) “Causal Emergence and Neural Ensembles” at the NeuroTechnology Center at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
• (2015, Invited) “Measuring Causal Emergence” at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at New York, NY, USA.
• (2015, Invited) “How the Macro Beats the Micro” presented at the workshop on The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: Foundational Issues.
• (2015) “Brain organization and the spatiotemporal scale of brain activity” for the the Neuroscience Training Program seminar series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
• (2013, Invited) “The Limits of Reductionism” at Hampshire College’s 40th anniversary celebration, Amherst, MA.
• (2010) “Graph Theory and the Neural Correlates of Consciousness” in the Division III Presentation Series, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
• (2008) “Electrophysiological Evidence of Pattern Completion and Separation in the CA1 Region of the Macaque Hippocampus” at the Summer Undergraduate Research Program at New York University, New York, NY, USA.