This week’s decision by the Eurogroup of euro-area finance ministers to nominate Vitor Constancio as the next vice-president of the European Central Bank (ECB) certainly looks like a stitch-up.

He chose Bernard Kerik to run the NYPD, made him a partner in his consultancy, and persuaded the White House to nominate him as head of the Department of Homeland Security.

If you asked most scientists to guess, they might nominate regions that are thought of as "cognitive" or dedicated to thinking, such as the lateral prefrontal cortex.