Fractionating the neural substrates of transitive reasoning: Task-dependent contributions of spatial and verbal representations

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 499-507

  Prado, Jérôme ^a   Mutreja, Rachna ^a   Booth, James R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; linear relation; set inclusion relation; transitive reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSITIVE REASONING;

EID: 84873683436     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr389     Document Type: Article

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