Questions left unanswered: how the brain responds to missing information.

It sometimes happens that when someone asks a question, the addressee does not give an adequate answer, for instance by leaving out part of the required information. The person who posed the question may wonder why the information was omitted, and engage in extensive processing to find out what the...

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Main Authors: John C J Hoeks, Laurie A Stowe, Petra Hendriks, Harm Brouwer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3788781?pdf=render