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ArticleScientific reports2023

Seeing inferences: brain dynamics and oculomotor signatures of non-verbal deduction.

Ana Martín-Salguero, Carlo Reverberi, Aldo Solari, Luca Filippin, Christophe Pallier, Luca L Bonatti

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Ana Martín-SalgueroCenter for Brain and Cognition, Department of Information and Communications Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005, Barcelona, Spain. anamartinsalguero@icloud.com.
Carlo ReverberiNeuroMI-Milan Center for Neuroscience and Departments of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy. carlo.reverberi@unimib.it.
Aldo SolariDepartment of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy.
Luca FilippinCenter for Brain and Cognition, Department of Information and Communications Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005, Barcelona, Spain.
Christophe PallierCognitive Neuroimaging Unit U992, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Direction de la Recherche Fondamentale/Institut Joliot, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ERL9003, NeuroSpin Center, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France. christophe@pallier.org.
Luca L BonattiCenter for Brain and Cognition, Department of Information and Communications Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005, Barcelona, Spain. lucabonatti@mac.com.

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Abstract

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.

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