Virginia Sherborne, Emily Wood, Catriona R Mayland, Clare Gardiner, Caitlin Lusted, Anna Bibby, Angela Tod, Bethany Taylor, Stephanie Ejegi-Memeh
The mental health and well-being implications of a mesothelioma diagnosis: A mixed methods study
European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society
reasoning tasks used behavioral neuroimaging studies abstract triggering slow effortful processes contrast everyday life reasoning fast effortless exchange arguments conversation recent behavioral studies shown reasoning tasks underlying logic solved much easily embedded argumentative context present article study neural bases type everyday argumentative reasoning reasoning social metarepresentational process suggesting share mechanisms thus neural bases social metarepresentational process pragmatics metacognition theory mind isolate neural bases argumentative reasoning measured fmri activity participants read statement presented either conclusion argument assertion found conclusions arguments compared assertions associated greater activity region medial prefrontal cortex identified quantitative metaanalyses studies theory mind study shows possible use ecologically valid tasks study neural bases reasoning using tasks might point different neural bases observed abstract artificial tasks typically used neuroscience reasoning specifically speculate reasoning argumentative context might rely mechanisms supporting metarepresentational processes medial prefrontal cortex