Neuroscientific insights into the development of analogical reasoning (original) (raw)

In a large sample of children spanning ages 6-18 years, this study demonstrates pronounced age-related improvements in analogical reasoning between ages 6 and 10, and continued improvement until mid-adolescence. • We used neuroimaging to distinguish among several plausible cognitive accounts of the development of analogical reasoning. • This work demonstrates that the development of analogical reasoning is associated with increased engagement of the left anterior inferior prefrontal cortex (BA 47/45), previously shown to be associated with the ability to select among competing semantic associations. • Improvements over this age range were not observed in brain regions linked to domain-general processes underlying response control or relational thinking. 1 | INTRODUCTION Analogical reasoning, or the ability to find correspondences between individual objects as well as their relationships (Gentner, 1983;

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