In an elegant new study, Kouneiher et al . 1 employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess how regions of the human lateral and medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) mediate the relationship between cognitive demands and motivational considerations. link »
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I n practice, howe ver, a signal can be "white" with a flat spectrum over a defined frequency band link »
That is, there is no obvious equivalent of the Turing test for consciousness link »