Comparative neuroanatomy shows that new prefrontal areas emerged during the evolution
of anthropoid primates to augment prefrontal, parietal, and temporal areas that had evolved …

Humans have an unparalleled ability to engage in arbitrarily applicable relational
responding (AARR). One of the consequences of this ability to spontaneously combine and …

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

Humans and animals routinely infer relations between different items or events and
generalize these relations to novel combinations of items. This allows them to respond …

This study investigated areas of brain activation related to non-symbolic distance effects in
children with and without developmental dyscalculia (DD). We examined 15 children with …

The human brain is distinguished by its ability to perform explicit logical reasoning like
transitive inference. This study investigated the functional role of the inferior parietal cortex in …

Written by leading experts in language and cognition, this groundbreaking behavior analysis
textbook brings the study of verbal behavior into the 21st century with cutting-edge research …

It is a core cognitive ability of humans to represent and reason about relational information,
such as “the train station is north of the hotel” or “Charles is richer than Jim.” However, the …

Depression is a disorder characterized not only by persistent negative mood, lack of
motivation and a „ruminative” style of thinking, but also by specific deficits in cognitive …

Cognitive deficits in depression are mostly apparent in executive functions, especially when
integration of information and reasoning is required. In parallel, there are also numerous …