A Similarity-Based Process for Human Judgment in the Parietal Cortex.

ABSTRACT: One important distinction in psychology is between inferences based on associative memory and inferences based on analysis and rules. Much previous empirical work conceive of associative and analytical processes as two exclusive ways of addressing a judgment task, where only one process is selected and engaged at a time, in an either-or fashion. However, related work indicate that the processes are better understood as being in interplay and simultaneously engaged. Based on computational modeling and brain imaging of spontaneously adopted judgment strategies together with analyses of brain activity elicited in tasks where participants were explicitly instructed to perform similarity-based associative judgments or rule-based judgments (n = 74), we identified brain regio

SUBMITTER: Wirebring LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6315133 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature