Focused Review Article
Fluid reasoning and the developing brain
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Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis, USA
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Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, USA
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Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Fluid reasoning is a cornerstone of human cognition, both during development and in adulthood. In spite of this, the neural mechanisms underlying the development of fluid reasoning are largely unknown. Here we provide an overview of this important cognitive ability, how it is measured, how it changes over childhood and adolescence, and what is known about its neurobiological underpinnings. We review important findings from the psychometric, cognitive, and neuroscientific literatures, and outline important future directions for this interdisciplinary research.
Copyright: © 2009 Ferrer, O'Hare and Bunge. This is an open-access article subject to an exclusive license agreement between the authors and the Frontiers Research Foundation, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.
*Correspondence: Silvia Bunge, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, 132 Barker Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA. sbunge@berkeley.edu
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