Furthermore, it might be difficult to obtain unambiguous inference based on the cell division data alone.
Future experiments that entail unambiguous inference of subjective costs should help distinguish between the plausible explanations of the shifts along the price axis.
Our approach provided novel findings, replicated key results from prior analyses and provided unambiguous inference for functional annotations that previously reported significance levels that varied by dichotomization threshold.
Comparisons across past studies have observed greater MPFC activation during relatively ambiguous inferences about preferences than during relatively unambiguous inference about beliefs, concluding that the relevant difference was in the type of mental state being considered (Van Overwalle 2009).
Under a simplified "exact information" model, [ 7] showed that neither single nor paired read RNA-Seq data can theoretically guarantee unambiguous inference of isoform expression levels, although paired reads may be sufficient to deconvolute expression levels for the majority of annotated isoforms.
One possibility is that activity in vMPFC, which responded more during unambiguous inferences about preferences than during unambiguous inferences about beliefs (P < 0.02), could be associated specifically with person-focused attribution (Mitchell et al. 2005).
Interestingly, although both vMPFC and dMPFC differentiated between ambiguous and unambiguous inferences, vMPFC also showed greater activation during inferences about preferences than during inferences about beliefs.
In both cases, readily observable information can feed into some basic social cognitive rules to produce fairly unambiguous inferences about another person's mental states.
Whereas ventral and dorsal aspects of medial prefrontal cortex responded more during ambiguous than unambiguous inferences regardless of the type of mental state, the right temporoparietal junction was sensitive to the distinction between beliefs and preferences irrespective of certainty.
First, dorsal MPFC (dMPFC) demonstrated greater response during ambiguous than unambiguous inferences, F1,14 = 7.44, P < 0.02, d = 0.73, but did not differentiate between preferences and beliefs, F1,14 = 1.72, P > 0.21, d = 0.35.
Finally, activation in vMPFC was characterized by main effects of both ambiguity, F1,14 = 7.10, P < 0.02, d = 0.71, and content, F1,14 = 12.26, P < 0.0005, d = 0.94, such that the region responded more during ambiguous than unambiguous inferences and also responded more during inferences about preferences than during inferences about beliefs.
