Martín Salguero, Ana MaríaReverberi, CarloSolari, AldoFilippin, LucaPallier, ChristopheBonatti, Luca, 1960-2023-06-122023-06-122023Martín-Salguero A, Reverberi C, Solari A, Filippin L, Pallier C, Bonatti LL. Seeing inferences: brain dynamics and oculomotor signatures of non-verbal deduction. Sci Rep. 2023 Feb 9;13:2341. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-29307-32045-2322http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57151Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.We often express our thoughts through words, but thinking goes well beyond language. Here we focus on an elementary but basic thinking process, disjunction elimination, elicited by elementary visual scenes deprived of linguistic content, describing its neural and oculomotor correlates. We track two main components of a nonverbal deductive process: the construction of a logical representation (A or B), and its simplification by deduction (not A, therefore B). We identify the network active in the two phases and show that in the latter, but not in the former, it overlaps with areas known to respond to verbal logical reasoning. Oculomotor markers consistently differentiate logical processing induced by the construction of a representation, its simplification by deductive inference, and its maintenance when inferences cannot be drawn. Our results reveal how integrative logical processes incorporate novel experience in the flow of thoughts induced by visual scenes.application/pdfeng© Te Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.PensamentPsicolingüísticaCognició i llenguatgeNeurolingüísticainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29307-3info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess