• Project Leader: Dr Amy Crisp

Category-Based Induction can be driven by different types of knowledge. Sometimes two categories may be very strongly associated, but this association may be contextually irrelevant. In behavioural studies we have shown that when association competes with relevancy, people make more reasoning errors and this is related to a measure of inhibitory control. Thus, we hypothesise that reasoners have to inhibit the strong association in favour of more relevant knowledge. In a single experiment we wish to test this inhibition account.  We expect that amongst participants who generalize to the more relevantly related category rather than the strongly associated category, there will be greater activation in areas associated with inhibitory control.

Funded by: Durham University

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