A neurocomputational system for relational reasoning

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 373-381

  Knowlton, Barbara J ^a   Morrison, Robert G ^b   Hummel, John E ^c   Holyoak, Keith J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT CONCEPT; BRAIN REGIONS; COMPUTATIONAL CONSTRAINTS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; HUMAN REASONING; NEUROCOMPUTATIONAL MODELS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RELATIONAL REASONING; SCHEMAS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

BRAIN;

ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER MODEL; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; OSCILLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; REVIEW; THINKING; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THINKING;

EID: 84862878663     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.06.002     Document Type: Review

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