News
2026
March
Our paper Comparisons of the structure and function of higher cortical circuits in marmosets and macaques: Models for mental health disorders by Mary Kate P. Joyce, Raymond Ka Wong, Courtney Glavis-Bloom, Susheel Vijayraghavan, Judith Burkart, Panagiota Theodoni, Diego B. Piza, Claudia Perez-Cruz, Stefan Everling, and Angela C. Roberts, is submitted for review
January
Our paper From comparative connectomics to large-scale working memory modeling in macaque and marmoset
Loïc Magrou+, Panagiota Theodoni+, Amy F.T. Arnsten, Marcello G.P. Rosa, Xiao-Jing Wang, (+ equal contribution), is published in Cell Reports, on January 27, 2026
2025
December
Our paper From comparative connectomics to large-scale working memory modeling in macaque and marmoset
Loïc Magrou+, Panagiota Theodoni+, Amy F.T. Arnsten, Marcello G.P. Rosa, Xiao-Jing Wang, (+ equal contribution), is accepted in Cell Reports, soon to be published online
September
Started Fall Semester at the Open University of Cyprus, MSc Cognitive Systems, teaching the Graduate Course Computational Neuroscience
July
I gave a 2-hour lecture on Ancient Greek and Chinese Philosophy at the summer school for Chinese students on Greek Civilization organized by the Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece, and the Ningbo University, China, see
March
Our article on a consensus mapping of cortical parcellation between marmoset and macaque for between-species one-to-one comparison of anatomical inter-areal connectivity and multi-regional neural networks, here for working memory, is now under review in Neuron:
From comparative connectomics to large-scale working memory modeling in macaque and marmoset - bioRxiv 2025
Our article on a multi-regional network model for conscious access A dynamic bifurcation mechanism explains cortex-wide neural correlates of conscious access is now published in Cell Reports.
January
Adjunct Professor for Spring 2025, at College Year in Athens, Athens, Greece to teach the undergraduate course “Consciousness” (history, philosophy, and (neuro)science of consciousness) of the Neuroscience and Psychology Disciplines.
2024
December 22
I gave a talk at the Symposium “Philosophy and Psychology discuss about virtues as tools of education and training” with the tile “co-living in harmony with AI”, Crete, Greece
September
Adjunct Professor for Fall 2024 at College Year in Athens, Athens, Greece to teach the undergraduate course “Consciousness” (history, philosophy, and (neuro)science of consciousness) of the Neuroscience and Psychology Disciplines.
Adjunct Professor for Fall 2024 at the Open University of Cyprus, teaching online the Graduate course COS514 “Computational Neuroscience” at the MSc “Cognitive Systems”, Nicosia, Cyprus
March
Adjunct Professor for Spring 2024 at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Psychology, Athens, Greece, to teach two undergraduate courses:
- Introduction Research Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience
- Psychology and Neurobiology of Language
January
Adjunct Professor for Spring 2024 at College Year in Athens, Athens, Greece to teach the undergraduate course “Consciousness” (history, philosophy, and (neuro)science of consciousness) of the Neuroscience and Psychology Disciplines.
2023
November 3
I gave a Talk “On the Foundations of inter-Subjective Science: The Problem of Closing the Loop” at the Cognitive Science Speaker Series Fall 2023, at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, USA. Recording of the talk is available upon request
October 31
I gave a Talk in Greek “Περί των θεμελίων της διυποκειμενικής επιστήμης - το πρόβλημα του κλεισίματος του βρόχου” (On the Foundations of inter-Subjective Science: The Problem of Closing the Loop) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, at the Seminar of Master & PhD students and Postdocs, Fall 2023. Recording of the talk is available upon request.
September 22
I had three presentations at the 6th Panhellenic Conference of Cognitive Science, September 21-14, in Xylokastro, Greece:
(a) Chrysa Serefidou gave a talk “Neuro-quantum phenomena and their relation to consciousness” C. Serefidou, I. Skaliora, and P. Theodoni
(b) I gave a Talk at the Symposium “Challenges for current theories of consciousness” P. Theodoni
(c) I presented a Poster “A neural network model for the distributed nature of conscious content” P. Theodoni
September 7
I gave a Talk at Oxford University, Mathematical Institute, UK, at the Models of Consciousness 2023 Conference: “A multi-regional neural network model for conscious perception” with a short description of the “Foundations of (inter)subjective science: The Problem of closing the loop”
September 5
I started teaching the Fall 2023 “Consciousness” undergraduate course (history, philosophy, and (neuro)science of consciousness) of the Neuroscience and Psychology Disciplines, at the College Year in Athens, Athens, Greece
June 24
I presented a Poster “A neural network model for the distributed nature of conscious content” P. Theodoni, at the 26th annual meeting of the Association of the Scientific Study of Consciousness held by New York University, NYC, USA
March 30
I gave a 3-hour guest (online) lecture on the “History, philosophy and (neuro)science of consciousness” at the University of Athens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, at the graduate course “Special issues of neuroscience” of the master program “Cognitive Science”.
March 24 New entry on Letters “my question on the debate on whether language models require sensory grounding for understanding” where I express my skepticism on whether it is possible to dissociate our understanding from that of LLMs - if we ever think that they have achieved it.
March 23
New entry on Theodoni Letters “Deep learning systems lack the human-like ability to acquire knowledge.” by Vishwa Goudar and me
March 8
My abstract “A neural network model for the distributed nature of conscious content” has been accepted to present it as a poster at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Conference (ASSC 26) in NYC in June 2023.
January
Started supervising a master’s thesis at the master program “Cognitive Science” at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens.
2022 —– November 14
Poster presentation at the Society for Neuroscience conference: SFN 2022 “Large scale modeling of distributed working memory: a comparative study between macaque and marmoset” with Loïc Magrou, Marcello Rosa, Xiao-Jing Wang, Henry Kennedy, Kenneth Knoblauch, Amy Arnsten where we compare WM multi-regional neural network models of mcq & mrm cortex based on the connectome of a mcq-mrm consensus cortical parcellation (first introduced at SFN 2017), for a 1-1 cortical areal comparison!
*October 24
Accepted by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Philosophy as a Graduate student at the Master of Arts (MA) in “Philosophy”](http://en.philosophymaster.philosophy.uoa.gr/) with specialization ”History of Philosophy and Ideas”, starting November 2022.
July 28
Accepted by the Open University of Cyprus to teach the Graduate course COS514 “Computational Neuroscience” of the MSc “Cognitive Systems” jointly by the Open University of Cyprus and the University of Cyprus.
July 26
Submitted the Syllabus for the Undergraduate course “Consciousness” that I will be teaching in Fall 2022 at the College Year in Athens CYA). CYA is a College in Athens for students from USA (and not only) Universities that go to Greece for a study abroad semester. The credits they get from the courses they attend at CYA are recognized by their home University.
July 5
My visiting scholar position at the NYU Philosophy Department has been extended for 1 more year! Thank you NYU Philosophy for having me for one more year, Dave for sponsoring me, and all faculty, postdocs, and graduate students of NYU Philosophy for having been so welcoming and helpful in my philosophical training and exploration! Very happy to keep being among you for a bit more.
Feb 21&28
The Debut and 2nd episode of the “Science as a Hobby” at the bar Chispa, in Brooklyn, NYC
Feb 22
Our paper “A connectome-based model of conscious access in monkey cortex” is in bioRxiv
2021 —–
Nov 21
I gave the talk “Distributed Conscious Perception” at the Philosophy of Mind meeting Group, of the NYU Center of Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, NYU Philosophy Department, NYC, USA
Sept 1
Started as a visiting scholar at the NYU Department of Philosophy, Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness
Jul 23
The NYU Department of Philosophy approved my visiting scholar application, starting this September! Many thanks to David Chalmers for the sponsorship
Jul 19
Our paper on analysis of the inter-areal connectivity of the marmoset cortex is accepted in Cerebral Cortex, is now finally published!
Jun 1
Our paper on analysis of the inter-areal connectivity of the marmoset cortex is accepted in Cerebral Cortex, will soon be published
Apr 2
Yotta created the poster of CCNSS 2021
2020 —– Nov 2
Neurotheoria is now also on Twitter
Sept 17 Dr. Panagiota Theodoni is mentioned in the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) news
Sept 4
The first Online, Open to all, Free and Interactive talk of the NYU Swartz Seminar Series, co-organized by Panagiota Theodoni, is on! talks can also be found at WWN, crowdcast & youtube
Aug 1
Yota at the NMA closing ceremony for Americas
Jul 31
Yota at the NMA closing ceremony for Europe/Africa
Jul 29
Dr. Theodoni co-hosts the NMA Q&A session for Dynamic Networks, for Americas
Jul 28
Yota talking about what NMA volunteers did to ensure accessibility and inclusivity
Jul 11
The first video of Neuromatch Academy -an online, open, free/low cost & inclusive summer course in computational neuroscience- co-organized by Panagiota Theodoni is on!
Apr 22
Neurotheoria (Νευροθεωρία), founded by Panagiota Theodoni, is born and the first post is made