The document summarizes a thesis defense on the neural substrates of conditional reasoning. It presents hypotheses that conditional reasoning activates bilateral fronto-temporoparietal regions for formal and semantic processing, while causal conditional reasoning specifically activates left fronto-parietal regions. It also hypothesizes differences based on content (causal vs abstract) and domain (physical vs social). The study found left lateralized activation for causal reasoning and right lateralized activation for abstract reasoning. It also found right lateralized activation for social reasoning and left fronto-parietal activation for physical reasoning.