Speaker
Rebekka Tenderra
(MPI for Empirical Aesthetics)
Description
Rather than learning everything from first principles, humans can exploit structural similarities across contexts, allowing knowledge acquired in one domain to be applied in another. Cognitive-computational research suggests this process is essential to human reasoning. Here we combine representational geometry analyses of task-based fMRI with cognitive tests to probe the neural basis of structure mapping and its relation to cognitive performance. We identify brain regions where knowledge structures align and show that the strength of neural alignment supports learning and inference, and predicts general reasoning ability.
Authors
Rebekka Tenderra
(MPI for Empirical Aesthetics)
Stephanie Theves