The effect of social content on deductive reasoning: An fMRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 30-43

  Canessa, Nicola ^a,b   Gorini, Alessandra ^b   Cappa, Stefano F ^b   Piattelli Palmarini, Massimo ^c   Danna, Massimo ^d   Fazio, Ferruccio ^d,e   Perani, Daniela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conditional rules; Content effect; Deductive reasoning; fMRI; Social exchange; Wason selection task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; DEDUCTIVE REASONING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 24144444706     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20114     Document Type: Article

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