Recomposing a fragmented literature: How conditional and relational arguments engage different neural systems for deductive reasoning

NeuroImage

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1213-1221

  Prado, Jérôme ^a,b   Der Henst, Jean Baptiste Van ^b   Noveck, Ira A ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEDUCTIVE REASONING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THINKING;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952419627     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.03.026     Document Type: Article

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