Cortical bases of elementary deductive reasoning: Inference, memory, and metadeduction

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1107-1116

  Reverberi, Carlo ^a,b   Shallice, Tim ^c,d   D'Agostini, Serena ^e   Skrap, Miran ^e   Bonatti, Luca L ^f  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Focal brain lesions; Frontal lobes; Group study; Learning; Logic; Monitoring; Rules

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 60549089787     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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