Reasoning Ability: Neural Mechanisms, Development, and Plasticity
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Professor, Department of Psychology & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Un ...
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Host
McGill Neuro
Duration
70 minutes
Abstract
Relational thinking, or the process of identifying and integrating relations between mental representations, is regularly invoked during reasoning. This mental capacity enables us to draw higher-order abstractions and generalize across situations and contexts, and we have argued that it should be included in the pantheon of executive functions. In this talk, I will briefly review our lab's work characterizing the roles of lateral prefrontal and parietal regions in relational thinking. I will then discuss structural and functional predictors of individual differences and developmental changes in reasoning.
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