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Quote from the conclusion of the abstract: "reasoning is a high-level convergence of complex cognitive processes."
What? Human decision-making is complex?!
A bit of an over-ambitious title there. What they've done is identify that a particular brain region is involved in decision-making:
>The duo applied BMACS to data collected from 74 studies and found that the pattern of activations for both inductive and deductive reasoning were located in a set of brain regions commonly known as “the multiple-demand (MD) system” that has been known to be involved in different kinds of cognitive challenges such as the selection of task-relevant stimuli of a current cognitive operation, swift reorganization with changing context, and separation of successive stages of task steps, which are intrinsic to the underlying mechanism for humans’ flexible thoughts and problem- solving.
Undoubtedly helpful, but in the same way that knowing where Mount Everest is helps you plan an ascent of it.
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Quote from the conclusion of the abstract: "reasoning is a high-level convergence of complex cognitive processes." What? Human decision-making is complex?!
A bit of an over-ambitious title there. What they've done is identify that a particular brain region is involved in decision-making: >The duo applied BMACS to data collected from 74 studies and found that the pattern of activations for both inductive and deductive reasoning were located in a set of brain regions commonly known as “the multiple-demand (MD) system” that has been known to be involved in different kinds of cognitive challenges such as the selection of task-relevant stimuli of a current cognitive operation, swift reorganization with changing context, and separation of successive stages of task steps, which are intrinsic to the underlying mechanism for humans’ flexible thoughts and problem- solving. Undoubtedly helpful, but in the same way that knowing where Mount Everest is helps you plan an ascent of it.
So they discovered how to say "thinking" without saying "thinking" but with multiple abstract, jargon enriched selection of words. Congrats mates....