The cognition and neuroscience of relational reasoning

Brain Research

Volumn 1428, Issue , 2012, Pages 13-23

  Krawczyk, Daniel C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogical reasoning; Prefrontal cortex; Relational reasoning

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROSCIENCES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84855873026     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.11.080     Document Type: Review

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