Psychological Development and Education ›› 2009, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (4): 68-74.

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An Event-related Potential Study on Neural Basis of Transitive Inference

ZHANG Feng-hua, QIU Jiang, YANG Qun, ZHANG Qing-lin   

  1. School of psychology, Key laboratory of cognition and personality, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715
  • Online:2009-10-15 Published:2009-10-15

Abstract: The spatiotemporal analysis of brain activation in three transitive inference tasks and one baseline task(memory retrieval)was carried out by using high-density event-related brain potentials(ERPs).Results showed that the three inference tasks elicited the same activation which was different from that in the baseline task.This suggests that people process the transitive inference according to the visual representation of the information,and it supports mental model theory.

Key words: transitive inference, anterior cingulate cortex(ACC), posterior cingulate cortex(PCC), ERPs(event-related potentials)

CLC Number: 

  • B842.1
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