The boundaries of language and thought in deductive inference

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 12554-12559

  Monti, Martin M ^a,b   Parsons, Lawrence M ^c   Osherson, Daniel N ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fMRI; Logic; Reasoning; Semantics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPETENCE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERENCE MAKING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LOGIC; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; THINKING;

COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149168109     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902422106     Document Type: Article

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