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Neural underpinnings of divergent production of rules in numerical analogical reasoning
- Source :
- Biological Psychology. 117:170-178
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Creativity plays an important role in numerical problem solving. Although the neural underpinnings of creativity have been studied over decades, very little is known about neural mechanisms of the creative process that relates to numerical problem solving. In the present study, we employed a numerical analogical reasoning task with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural correlates of divergent production of rules in numerical analogical reasoning. Participants performed two tasks: a multiple solution analogical reasoning task and a single solution analogical reasoning task. Results revealed that divergent production of rules involves significant activations at Brodmann area (BA) 10 in the right middle frontal cortex, BA 40 in the left inferior parietal lobule, and BA 8 in the superior frontal cortex. The results suggest that right BA 10 and left BA 40 are involved in the generation of novel rules, and BA 8 is associated with the inhibition of initial rules in numerical analogical reasoning. The findings shed light on the neural mechanisms of creativity in numerical processing.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Process (engineering)
media_common.quotation_subject
050105 experimental psychology
Task (project management)
Creativity
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Parietal Lobe
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Problem Solving
media_common
Brain Mapping
Neural correlates of consciousness
medicine.diagnostic_test
General Neuroscience
05 social sciences
Mathematical Concepts
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Frontal Lobe
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Female
Production (computer science)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Psychology
Divergent thinking
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Brodmann area
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03010511
- Volume :
- 117
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Biological Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d15841eade5cf002102f6fe3ec1ccfa4