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Researchers have compared reasoning about four-term analogy problems to control conditions that required matching without analogical mapping. 

An fMRI Investigation of Cognitive Stages in Reasoning by Analogy

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Comparing the reasoning performance of frontotemporal lobar degeneration to healthy controls, this study shows the importance of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in managing distracting information.

Distraction During Relational Reasoning: The Role of Prefrontal Cortex in Interference Control

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Dr. Dan Krawczyk, associate research professor and deputy director at Center for BrainHealth, recently published a textbook Reasoning: The Neuroscience of How We Think, which serves as a comprehensive guide to the core topics related to a thorough understanding of reasoning.

Center for BrainHealth Deputy Director Writes the Book on Reasoning

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In this study, Dr. Krawczyk and other researchers explore whether chess and face processing overlap in brain activity when measured with fMRI.

The Neural Organization of Perception in Chess Experts

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Findings from this randomized control trial (RCT) indicate that SMART™ Brain Training can increase cortical thickness and induce brain plasticity throughout chronic phases of TBI.

Strategy-Based Reasoning Training Modulates Cortical Thickness and Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Adults With Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury

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Specific brain regions are responsive when evaluating social behaviors related to core values of benevolence, universalism, power and achievement.

Relative Activation Patterns Associated With Self-Transcendent and Self-Enhancement Core Values: An fMRI Study of Basic Human Values Theory Concepts in Males

Reasoning research investigates how people cope with complex conditions, abstract meaning, interrogate possibilities, and ultimately get solutions.

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Daniel Krawczyk, Deputy Director, Center for BrainHealth, Debbie and Jim Francis Chair in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

A professor of psychology and neuroscience, Dr. Dan Krawczyk focuses on research aimed at improving reasoning and decision-making and, having explored this interest for the past 20 years as a professor, author and podcaster. 

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