Conditional and syllogistic deductive tasks dissociate functionally during premise integration

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1430-1445

  Reverberi, Carlo ^a,b,c   Cherubini, Paolo ^a   Frackowiak, Richard S J ^b,d   Caltagirone, Carlo ^b   Paulesu, Eraldo ^a   Macaluso, Emiliano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abstract thinking; Broca's area; fMRI; Language; Logic; Rules

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONDITIONAL REASONING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYLLOGISTIC REASONING;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; THINKING;

EID: 77956292497     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20947     Document Type: Article

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