Brain-based mechanisms underlying complex causal thinking

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1204-1213

  Fugelsang, Jonathan A ^a   Dunbar, Kevin N ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict monitoring; Error detection; fMRI; Learning; Scientific reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; THINKING;

EID: 16244404902     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.10.012     Document Type: Article

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