By recording from microelectrodes in monkey prefrontal cortex (PFC), researchers have decoded the contents of conscious perception in cognitive areas (lateral prefrontal cortex) in conditions in which perceptions are not determined by the stimulus, binocular rivalry, and flash suppression [1–4]. As I noted in my recent Trends in Cognitive Sciences article [5], such results cannot […]

A central controversy in consciousness science concerns whether the neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs) exclusively reside posterior to the central sulcus or also include frontal regions [1–4]. In a recent Trends in Cognitive Sciences article, Block [5] contends that popular ‘no-report’ paradigms [6,7] cannot settle this dispute, since absence of report is consistent with extensive […]

A novel deep learning based model called Multi-Planar Spatial Convolutional Neural Network (MPS-CNN) is proposed for effective, automated segmentation of different sub-regions viz. peritumoral edema (ED), necrotic core (NCR), enhancing and non-enhancing tumor core (ET/NET), from multi-modal MR images of the brain. An encoder-decoder type CNN model is designed for pixel-wise segmentation of the tumor […]