Neuroimaging studies could help us find signs of consciousness in the brain speedkingz/shutterstock
Will we ever be able to locate consciousness within the brain? It is a question that, a quarter of a century ago, two researchers aimed to settle with a wager that is due to expire in 2023.
In 1998, , now at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, bet , now at New York University, that scientists would discover a specific signature – or neural correlate – of consciousness within 25 years.
“I was a young academic, I was at the world’s best research university,” says Koch. “I was inexperienced, I…
