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Cognitive neuroscience is the study of the biological, and especially neural, processes that underlie cognition and mental activities. The three chapters in this Section of the Handbook explore abductive reasoning with a special focus on inference patterns routinely employed by neuroscientists both in evaluating evidence concerning brain activity and in assessing cognitive hypotheses on its basis.
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Cevolani, G. (2023). Introduction to Abduction and Cognitive Neuroscience. In: Magnani, L. (eds) Handbook of Abductive Cognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68436-5_92-1
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