Neural correlates of relational reasoning and the symbolic distance effect: Involvement of parietal cortex

Neuroscience

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 138-148

  Hinton, E C ^a   Dymond, S ^b   von Hecker, U ^a   Evans, C J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FMRI; Less than; More than; Relational reasoning; Symbolic distance; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; LOGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952890990     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.03.052     Document Type: Article

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