Paradoxical reasoning: an fMRI study

Abstract: Paradoxes are a special form of reasoning leading to absurd inferences in contrast to logical reasoning that is used to reach valid conclusions. A functional MRI (fMRI) study was conducted to investigate the neural substrates of paradoxical and deductive reasoning. Twenty-four healthy participants were scanned using fMRI, while they engaged in reasoning tasks based on arguments, which were either Zeno’s like paradoxes (paradoxical reasoning) or Aristotelian arguments (deductive reasoning). Clusters of significant activation for paradoxical reasoning were located in bilateral inferior frontal and middle temporal gyrus. Clusters of significant activation for deductive reasoning were located in bilateral superior and inferior parietal lobe, precuneus, and inferior frontal gyrus. These results confirmed that different brain activation patterns are engaged for paradoxical vs. deductive reasoning providing a basis for future studies on human physiological as well as pathological reasoning

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Frontiers in psychology. - 13 (2022) , 850491, ISSN: 1664-1078

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Veröffentlichung
(where)
Freiburg
(who)
Universität
(when)
2022
Creator
Belekou, Antigoni
Papageorgiou, Charalabos
Karavasilis, Efstratios
Tsaltas, Eleftheria
Kelekis, Nikolaos
Klein, Christoph
Smyrnis, Nikolaos

DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2022.850491
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2269787
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  • Belekou, Antigoni
  • Papageorgiou, Charalabos
  • Karavasilis, Efstratios
  • Tsaltas, Eleftheria
  • Kelekis, Nikolaos
  • Klein, Christoph
  • Smyrnis, Nikolaos
  • Universität

Time of origin

  • 2022

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