AUTHOR=Houdé Olivier , Borst Grégoire TITLE=Evidence for an inhibitory-control theory of the reasoning brain JOURNAL=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience VOLUME=9 YEAR=2015 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00148 DOI=10.3389/fnhum.2015.00148 ISSN=1662-5161 ABSTRACT=

In this article, we first describe our general inhibitory-control theory and, then, we describe how we have tested its specific hypotheses on reasoning with brain imaging techniques in adults and children. The innovative part of this perspective lies in its attempt to come up with a brain-based synthesis of Jean Piaget’s theory on logical algorithms and Daniel Kahneman’s theory on intuitive heuristics.