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Evolutionary and developmental changes in the lateral frontoparietal network: a little goes a long way for higher-level cognition.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Examining the relations between spatial skills and mathematical performance: A meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Pooled it
- Characterizing Behavioral and Brain Changes Associated with Practicing Reasoning Skills.PloS one · 2015Trial
- What is common to memory retrieval and relational reasoning? Testing neural overlap in anterior lateral prefrontal cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Evaluating the reliability of functional near-infrared spectroscopy data in the context of a reasoning paradigm.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Increasing representational capacity in the hippocampal-frontoparietal system underlies hierarchical development of temporal memory.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Review
- Neurocomputational modeling of rule abstraction and memorization during probabilistic stimulus-reward learning.iScience · 2026Article
- Characterizing Ultimatum Game responders: a scoping review of factors that influence decision-making through an evolutionary lens.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Knocking at the Doors of Perception: Relating LSD Effects on Low‐Frequency Fluctuations and Regional Homogeneity to Receptor Densities in fMRI.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Relational Integration Demands Are Tracked by Temporally Delayed Neural Representations in Alpha and Beta Rhythms Within Higher-Order Cortical Networks.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Anchoring Functional Connectivity to Individual Sulcal Morphology Yields Insights in a Pediatric Study of Reasoning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Anchoring functional connectivity to individual sulcal morphology yields insights in a pediatric study of reasoning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Neuro-functional correlates of personality dimensions in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- An Exploratory Study of Large-Scale Brain Networks during Gambling Using SEEG.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Updating the sulcal landscape of the human lateral parieto-occipital junction provides anatomical, functional, and cognitive insights.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Alterations of functional brain activity and connectivity in female nurses working on long-term shift.Nursing open · 2024Article
- Sulcal variability in anterior lateral prefrontal cortex contributes to variability in reasoning performance among young adults.Brain structure & function · 2024Article
- Goal-directed learning in adolescence: neurocognitive development and contextual influences.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Neuroanatomical and Functional Dissociations between Variably Present Anterior Lateral Prefrontal Sulci.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neural activity and network analysis for understanding reasoning using the matrix reasoning task.Cognitive processing · 2023Article
- Structural Fingerprinting of the Frontal Aslant Tract: Predicting Cognitive Control Capacity and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Relational thinking, or the ability to represent the relations between items, is widespread in the animal kingdom. However, humans are unparalleled in their ability to engage in the higher-order relational thinking required for reasoning and other forms of abstract thought. Here we propose that the versatile reasoning skills observed in humans can be traced back to developmental and evolutionary changes in the lateral frontoparietal network (LFPN). We first identify the regions within the LFPN that are most strongly linked to relational thinking, and show that stronger communication between these regions over the course of development supports improvements in relational reasoning. We then explore differences in the LFPN between humans and other primate species that could explain species differences in the capacity for relational reasoning. We conclude that fairly small neuroanatomical changes in specific regions of the LFPN and their connections have led to big ontogenetic and phylogenetic changes in cognition.
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