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Arindam Bhattacharjee and Lopamudra Choudhury
Jadavpur University
Deductive reasoning is the cognitive ability to search for new information on the basis of
the information already given. With the advancement of different neurological techniques
it is possible to understand neural activities during deductive reasoning in details.
Review based literature helps in understanding area wise activation during deductive
reasoning. However, the possible cognitive roles of those activated areas were not
clearly described in the literature. This paper attempts to address primitive cognitive
functions that are involved in deductive reasoning by means of identifying the possible
role of brain regions during deductive reasoning. Majority of studies indicate that other
cognitive functions are inherent in deductive reasoning