Dissociable neural systems underwrite logical reasoning in the context of induced emotions with positive and negative valence

How emotions influence syllogistic reasoning is not well understood. fMRI was employed to investigate the effects of induced positive or negative emotion on syllogistic reasoning. Specifically, on a trial-by-trial basis participants were exposed to a positive, negative, or neutral picture, immediate...

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Main Authors: Kathleen Walton Smith, Oshin eVartanian, Vinod eGoel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00736/full