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Intuitive physical reasoning is not mediated by linguistic nor exclusively domain-general abstract representations

2024-11-25

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The ability to reason about the physical world is a critical tool in the human cognitive toolbox, but the nature of the representations that mediate physical reasoning remains debated. Here, we use fMRI to illuminate this question by investigating the relationship between the physical-reasoning system and two well-characterized systems: a) the domain-general Multiple Demand (MD) system, which supports abstract rea...

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Literature Corpus work: 7d6032ac-83cc-51e1-a8ef-b0b6abf1050f
DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.25.625212

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