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Personal profile
Biography
Dr Thomas Andrillon has a long-lasting fascination for the human brain and how thoughts emerge from such a tiny piece of matter.
More particularly, Dr Andrillon focuses his research on understanding how modulations of sleep and vigilance constrain our brain's ability to produce sensations, decisions or actions. During his PhD, completed in 2016 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Dr Andrillon has shown that sleep is not an homogenous process and that the sleeping brain is far from being disconnected when we sleep. Rather, sleepers can flexibally process incoming stimuli, make decisions and even learn!
At Monash University, Dr Andrillon is extending this work to wakefulness and is examining how mind-wandering and day-dreaming affect our capacity to interact with our environment. Dr Andrillon's work is part of a broader inter-disciplinary focus on sleep, dreams, mind-wandering and consciousness including A/Prof Tsuchiya (Psychology), Prof Sean Drummond (Psychology), Dr Jennifer Windt (Arts) and Dr Bei Bei (Psychology).
Research interests
Dr Andrillon's research interests lie at the interface between the "Memory and Attention" and "Sleep" programs for the Monash Institude of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences (MICCN).
Dr Andrillon is interested in understanding the neural mechanisms explaining our ability or inability to interact with our environment when we sleep our when our mind wanders.
To conduct his research, Dr Andrillon combines psychological experiments with electrophysiological recordings in healthy individuals and patients.
Research area keywords
- Sleep
- Attention
- Consciousness
- Memory
- Electrophysiology
Network
Projects
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LAPSE: Is the ADHD brain a sleepy brain?
Andrillon, T., Silk, T. J., Windt, J., Tononi, G., Bellgrove, M. & Drummond, S.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Fathoming sleep depth: a novel approach to the understanding and assessing of sleep-state misperception in insomnia
21/12/20 → 20/12/24
Project: Research
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Integrating theory-guided and data-driven approaches for measuring consciousness
Tsuchiya, N., Fulcher, B., Carter, O. L., Andrillon, T. & Hogendoorn, H.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/01/20 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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“Music to my ears”: real-time sonification of brain activity as an artistic performance and personal experience
Matthews, J., Caterall, M., Andrillon, T., Cooper, P. & Wong, W.
Monash University – Internal University Contribution, University of Melbourne
1/01/20 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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The influence of reports on the correlates of consciousness
International Brain Research Organization
1/10/17 → 30/09/18
Project: Research
Research output
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A cognitive profile of multi-sensory imagery, memory and dreaming in aphantasia
Dawes, A. J., Keogh, R., Andrillon, T. & Pearson, J., 22 Jun 2020, In : Scientific Reports. 10, 1, 10 p., 10022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile9 Citations (Scopus) -
A reply to “the unfolding argument”: Beyond functionalism/behaviorism and towards a science of causal structure theories of consciousness
Tsuchiya, N., Andrillon, T. & Haun, A., Mar 2020, In : Consciousness and Cognition. 79, 6 p., 102877.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other › peer-review
7 Citations (Scopus) -
Daytime Exposure to Blue-Enriched Light Counters the Effects of Sleep Restriction on Cortisol, Testosterone, Alpha-Amylase and Executive Processes
Faraut, B., Andrillon, T., Drogou, C., Gauriau, C., Dubois, A., Servonnet, A., Van Beers, P., Guillard, M., Gomez-Merino, D., Sauvet, F., Chennaoui, M. & Léger, D., 8 Jan 2020, In : Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13, 15 p., 1366.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus) -
Revisiting the value of polysomnographic data in insomnia: more than meets the eye
Andrillon, T., Solelhac, G., Bouchequet, P., Romano, F., Le Brun, M. P., Brigham, M., Chennaoui, M. & Léger, D., Feb 2020, In : Sleep Medicine. 66, p. 184-200 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Sleepers Selectively Suppress Informative Inputs during Rapid Eye Movements
Koroma, M., Lacaux, C., Andrillon, T., Legendre, G., Léger, D. & Kouider, S., 22 Jun 2020, In : Current Biology. 30, 12, p. 2411-2417 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)
Prizes
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Arconati-Visconti PhD Prize
Andrillon, Thomas (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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European Sleep Research Society Travel Award
Andrillon, Thomas (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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SRS 2018 Outstanding Early Investigator Award
Andrillon, Thomas (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)