Shifting from the perceptual brain to the logical brain:: The neural impact of cognitive inhibition training

被引:148
作者
Houdé, O
Zago, L
Mellet, E
Moutier, S
Pineau, A
Mazoyer, B
Tzourio-Mazoyer, N
机构
[1] Univ Caen, CEA, CNRS, F-14032 Caen, France
[2] Univ Paris 05, F-75270 Paris 06, France
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10.1162/089892900562525
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Q189 [神经科学];
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071006 ;
摘要
What happens in the human brain when the mind has to inhibit a perceptual process in order to activate a logical reasoning process? Here, we use functional imaging to show the networks of brain areas involved in a deductive logic task performed twice by the same subjects, first with a perceptual bias and then with a logical response following bias-inhibition training. The main finding is a striking shift in the cortical anatomy of reasoning from the posterior part of the brain (the ventral and dorsal pathways) to a left-prefrontal network including the middle-frontal gyrus, Broca's area, the anterior insula, and the pre-SMA. This result indicates that such brain shifting is an essential element for human access to logical thinking.
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