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The Physics Network is Distinct from the Multiple Demand System in the Human Brain

2026-07-20

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Recent studies implicate regions of the human bilateral fronto-parietal cortices in intuitive physical reasoning—our ability to perceive, predict, and plan in the physical world. However, it remains unclear whether this "Physics Network" (PN) constitutes a distinct and domain-specific system, or whether instead it overlaps with the nearby domain-general multiple demand (MD) network. To answer this question, we sca...

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Literature Corpus work: 68445d31-222f-5751-bfed-d7186f6a0b73
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.19.739417

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