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    "pk": 27433,
    "title": "The Neural Mechanisms of Relational Reasoning:\nDissociating Representational Types",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The ability to reason about information is an essential human\ncapability. It is less understood from the perspective of neuro-\ncognitive processes which can serve to constrain cognitive\ntheories by implications from neuroscientific data. Despite\nsome progress in the last decades, some disagreement about\nthe experimental results and the cognitive processes of\nreasoning with abstract relations versus visuospatial relations\npersist. We conducted a cross-study meta-analysis of\nneuroimaging studies to determine the neural correlates of\nvisuospatial and abstract relational reasoning. We analyzed\n884 stereotactic data points from 38 studies and 692 subjects.\nWe found that relational reasoning is mediated by the fronto-\nparietal network, especially the right precuneus and the left\npars triangularis. Problems with abstract relations are\nprocessed by enhanced activation in the inferior parietal lobe,\nwhereas visuospatial reasoning is promoted by prefrontal\ndomains. Our results disentangle the neurocognitive\nmechanisms of different representational types of relational\nreasoning across study designs.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "meta-analysis; fMRI; reasoning; relational\nreasoning; analogical reasoning; mental representation"
        },
        {
            "word": "precuneus"
        },
        {
            "word": "pars triangularis"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4011f658",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Julia",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wertheim",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Freiburg",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Marco",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ragni",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Freiburg",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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