Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have explored the regions of the brain where concrete and abstract concepts materialize. A new study now explores if people who grow up in different cultures ...

A new study locates the brain's symbolic engine for compositional generalization within the ventral premotor cortex.

Humans continuously adapt their actions and behaviors in response to changes in their surrounding environment. Past ...

The brain's frontal lobe may be organized in a front-to-back continuum, with concrete decision-making occurring toward the back of the lobe and abstract thought toward the front, according to a recent ...

A new study reveals that famous abstract art may follow hidden mathematical patterns linked to human perception.

Instead, the framework demonstrates that the brain lacks any localized neural process for decision-making, revealing that what we perceive as a conscious choice is actually an emergent property of ...

Marta Rodriguez Aramendía, Mariachiara Esposito and Raphael Kaplan (with Lubna Abdul and Ameer Ghouse) have published the results of two paper that reveal new data about the behaviour of the human ...

Children's brains adapt during breaks, leading to cognitive drift away from structured learning, particularly in math. This ...