Intuitive interference in quantitative reasoning

Brain Research

Volumn 1073-1074, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 383-388

  Stavy, Ruth ^a   Goel, Vinod ^b   Critchley, Hugo ^c   Dolan, Ray ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congruent condition; Frontal lobe; Incongruent condition; Interference; Judgment; Multiple parallel strategy; Parietal lobe; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERROR; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTUITION; LOGIC; MALE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33644945372     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.12.011     Document Type: Article

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