Seeing inferences: brain dynamics and oculomotor signatures of non-verbal deduction.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 02 2023
09 02 2023
Historique:
received:
02
08
2022
accepted:
02
02
2023
entrez:
9
2
2023
pubmed:
10
2
2023
medline:
14
2
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We often express our thoughts through words, but thinking goes well beyond language. Here we focus on an elementary but basic thinking process, disjunction elimination, elicited by elementary visual scenes deprived of linguistic content, describing its neural and oculomotor correlates. We track two main components of a nonverbal deductive process: the construction of a logical representation (A or B), and its simplification by deduction (not A, therefore B). We identify the network active in the two phases and show that in the latter, but not in the former, it overlaps with areas known to respond to verbal logical reasoning. Oculomotor markers consistently differentiate logical processing induced by the construction of a representation, its simplification by deductive inference, and its maintenance when inferences cannot be drawn. Our results reveal how integrative logical processes incorporate novel experience in the flow of thoughts induced by visual scenes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36759690
doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-29307-3
pii: 10.1038/s41598-023-29307-3
pmc: PMC9911777
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2341Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s).
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