Neural foundations of logical and mathematical cognition
Jun 1, 2003 · According to Braine and O'Brien 7, humans possess a mental or natural logic, which is defined as a set of simple inference rules that are required to understand language and to reason about...
Decoding the brain: From neural representations to mechanistic models
Oct 17, 2024 · Understanding how the brain works has been a formidable challenge in neuroscience, but advances at the computational level are now driving us closer. This perspective discusses core concepts of neural encoding and decoding and how moving toward causal modeling can enable translational and foundational insights into the neural code.
Principles of Intelligence: On Evolutionary Logic of the Brain
Feb 2, 2016 · As the evolutionarily conserved logic, its validation requires experimental demonstrations of the following three major properties: (1) Anatomical prevalence— FCMs are prevalent across neural circuits, regardless of gross anatomical shapes; (2) Species conservancy— FCMs are conserved across different animal …
How our brains reason logically | Topoi - Springer
Apr 24, 2007 · The aim of this article is to strengthen links between cognitive brain research and formal logic. The work covers three fundamental sorts of logical inferences: reasoning in the propositional calculus, i.e. inferences with the conditional “if...then”, reasoning in the predicate calculus, i.e. inferences based on quantifiers such as “all ...
Editorial: The Reasoning Brain: The Interplay between Cognitive ...
Jan 4, 2017 · In a similar vein, Houdé and Borst show how cognitive neuroscience can be used to test an inhibitory-control theory of the reasoning brain, which stresses the importance of inhibiting misleading heuristics when activating logical algorithms.
Logical negation mapped onto the brain | Brain Structure and
Nov 4, 2019 · The present study separated the aspects of logic from language and numerosity—mental faculties whose distinctness has been debated for centuries—and identified a new cytoarchitectonic area as correlate for an operation involving logical negation.
Interactive Brain Model
This interactive brain model is powered by the Wellcome Trust and developed by Matt Wimsatt and Jack Simpson; reviewed by John Morrison, Patrick Hof, and Edward Lein. Structure descriptions were written by Levi Gadye and Alexis Wnuk and Jane Roskams .
Mathematical Logic in the Human Brain: Semantics | PLOS ONE
Jan 3, 2013 · As a higher cognitive function in humans, mathematics is supported by parietal and prefrontal brain regions. Here, we give an integrative account of the role of the different brain systems in processing the semantics of mathematical logic from the perspective of macroscopic polysynaptic networks.
Mental models and human reasoning - PNAS
Sep 2, 2010 · A task for cognitive scientists is accordingly to analyze what inferences are rational, how mental processes make these inferences, and how these processes are implemented in the brain. Scientific attempts to answer these questions go back to the origins of experimental psychology in the 19th century.
Logic in a dynamic brain - PubMed
Feb 1, 2021 · Abstract. The ability of the human brain to carry out logical reasoning can be interpreted, in general, as a by-product of adaptive capacities of complex neural networks. Thus, we seek to base abstract logical operations in the general properties of neural networks designed as learning modules.