The Reasoning Brain: The Interplay between Cognitive Neuroscience and Theories of Reasoning

• Main Author: Vinod Goel (auth)
• Other Authors: Gorka Navarrete (auth), Jerome Prado (auth), Ira A. Noveck (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Brain; inference; lesions; reasoning; Thinking; Dual mechanisms; Reason; Emotions; fMRI; induction; deduction; logic; rationality; Neuropsychology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Despite the centrality of rationality to our identity as a species (let alone the scientific endeavour), and the fact that it has been studied for several millennia, the present state of our knowledge of the mechanisms underlying logical reasoning remains highly fragmented. For example, a recent rev...