Reasoning

1. Introduction to Reasoning 2. Historical Perspectives on Reasoning 3. The Neuroscience of Reasoning 4. The Comparative Approach: Reasoning in Other Species Daniel Krawczyk and Aaron Blaisdell 5. Reasoning Origins: Human Development in Infancy and Childhood 6. Reasoning over the Lifespan 7. Disorders and their Effects on Reasoning 8. Causal Reasoning 9. Deduction and Induction 10. Analogical Reasoning 11. Decision Making and Abductive Reasoning 12. Social Reasoning 13. Future Directions: Emerging Technology and Cognitive Enhancement

Dan Krawczyk is an Associate Professor & Deputy Director of the Center for BrainHealth®, and the Francis Chair in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Dr. Krawczyk is also an Associate Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. His extensive multi-disciplinary research has investigated the neural basis of reasoning in veterans, healthy adults, adolescents, and individuals with disorders including dementia, brain injury, and autism spectrum disorders. His Department of Defense-funded research with U.S. military veterans has helped to provide a greater understanding of how reasoning strategies can enhance rehabilitation of brain functions after traumatic brain injury. He has also received support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to evaluate social reasoning skills across cultures. Dr. Krawczyk holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and was previously a Ruth L. Kirschstein postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He has appeared on television, radio, & frequently in print media. He recently spoke at a TEDx talk https://youtu.be/J3ktgPQbUvo & Perot Museum of Science, Dallas, TX. https://youtu.be/wcgS77KlUPE. For more up to date information on Dr. Krawczyk visit https://www.danielkrawczyk.org/