INTEGRATED INFORMATION IN THE EEG OF PRETERM INFANTS INCREASES WITH FAMILY NURTURE INTERVENTION, AGE, AND CONSCIOUS STATE.

A putative quantifier of consciousness, integrated information, was applied to preterm infant EEG data after novel Washing Machine Castor pre-processing.Integrated information had a non-random structure as a function of the time lag over which it was computed.For most lags, it increased with age in early life, but even more so in infants exposed to