Investigating reasoning with multiple integrated neuroscientific methods (2015)
Abstract
This opinion article discusses reasoning with multiple integrated neuroscientific methods. fMRI has now been applied to a large number of reasoning paradigms. Consideration of what appears initially as a disparate set of brain activations reveals consistencies suggestive of several underlying neural systems. Approaches which move beyond mapping the spatial extent of activation to consider the quality of brain activity seen in separate regions promise to clarify the distributed-network nature of the reasoning brain. Formal analyses of functional connectivity, or correlated activity, between brain regions active during the resting state have revealed the effects of prolonged practice on a reasoning task. The application of functional-connectivity analyses to brain activity elicited by reasoning, rather than rest, awaits. The incorporation of structural and functional MRI into studies of reasoning using repetitive TMS has promise to increase the power and accuracy of a technique which can probe the causal relationship between brain activity and reasoning performance. The lesson from other areas of investigation is that their integration can yield more than the sum of their parts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)
Bibliographic entry
Roser, M. E., Evans, J. S., McNair, N. A., Fuggetta, G. P., Handley, S. J., Carroll, L. L., & Trippas, D. (2015). Investigating reasoning with multiple integrated neuroscientific methods. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:41. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00041 (Full text)
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| Publication year | 2015 | |
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| Document type: | Article | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
| External URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00041 View | |
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