We usedthe “standard” and “switched” social contractversionsoftheWasonSelection- task toinvestigatetheneuralbasesofhumanreasoningaboutsocialrules.Boththese versions typicallyelicitthedeonticallycorrectanswer,i.e.theproperidentification ofthe violations ofaconditionalobligation.Onlyinthestandardversionofthetask,however, this responsecorrespondstothelogicallycorrectone.Wetookadvantageofthis differential adherencetologicalvs.deonticalaccuracytotestthedifferentpredictionsof logic rule-basedvs.visuospatialaccountsofinferentialabilitiesin14participantswho solved thestandardandswitchedversionsoftheSelection-taskduringfunctional- Magnetic-Resonance-Imaging.Bothversionsactivatedthewellknownleftfronto-parietal network ofdeductivereasoning.Thestandardversionadditionallyrecruitedthemedial parietal andrightinferiorparietalcortex,previouslyassociatedwithmentalimageryand with theadoptionofegocentricvs.allocentricspatialreferenceframes.Theseresults suggest thatvisuospatialprocessesencodingone'sownsubjectiveexperienceinsocial interactions maysupportandshapetheinterpretationofdeductiveargumentsand/orthe resulting inferences,thuscontributingtoelicitcontenteffectsinhumanreasoning.
The impact of egocentric vs. allocentric attributions on the neural bases of reasoning about social rules
PANTALEO , GIUSEPPE;
2014-01-01
Abstract
We usedthe “standard” and “switched” social contractversionsoftheWasonSelection- task toinvestigatetheneuralbasesofhumanreasoningaboutsocialrules.Boththese versions typicallyelicitthedeonticallycorrectanswer,i.e.theproperidentification ofthe violations ofaconditionalobligation.Onlyinthestandardversionofthetask,however, this responsecorrespondstothelogicallycorrectone.Wetookadvantageofthis differential adherencetologicalvs.deonticalaccuracytotestthedifferentpredictionsof logic rule-basedvs.visuospatialaccountsofinferentialabilitiesin14participantswho solved thestandardandswitchedversionsoftheSelection-taskduringfunctional- Magnetic-Resonance-Imaging.Bothversionsactivatedthewellknownleftfronto-parietal network ofdeductivereasoning.Thestandardversionadditionallyrecruitedthemedial parietal andrightinferiorparietalcortex,previouslyassociatedwithmentalimageryand with theadoptionofegocentricvs.allocentricspatialreferenceframes.Theseresults suggest thatvisuospatialprocessesencodingone'sownsubjectiveexperienceinsocial interactions maysupportandshapetheinterpretationofdeductiveargumentsand/orthe resulting inferences,thuscontributingtoelicitcontenteffectsinhumanreasoning.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
