New evidence for distinct right and left brain systems for deductive versus probabilistic reasoning

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 954-965

  Parsons, Lawrence M ^a,c   Osherson, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Science Foundation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0034790391     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/11.10.954     Document Type: Article

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