What's behind an inference? An EEG study with conditional arguments

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3125-3133

  Bonnefond, Mathilde ^a   Van der Henst, Jean Baptiste ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

CNV; Conditional reasoning; Inference; N2; P3b; PSW

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350622962     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.07.014     Document Type: Article

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