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 ...

When students approach abstract concepts through hands-on activities like painting, their literary analysis skills ...

Aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, poses a serious challenge to an influential theory of abstract thought in ...

Abstract concepts—such as justice, freedom or emotion—lack direct sensory referents and pose a central challenge to theories of mind and language. Traditional accounts have proposed that abstract ...

An insect's brain is capable of constructing and handling abstract concepts. It can even use two different concepts simultaneously in order to make a decision when faced with a new situation. This ...

A new review explores the different areas of the brain that process the meaning of concrete and abstract concepts. A new review explores the different areas of the brain that process the meaning of ...

String theory, quantum gravity, time dilation. Why do these advanced physics concepts come easily to some of us but not others? The trope that the human brain didn’t evolve to understand advanced ...

Words work as a glue, allowing us to group together different experiences under one label. This is especially true for concepts that we cannot see or touch. But we still don’t really understand how ...

At most schools a reading of Charlotte's Web might end with a bunch of little spiders made from pipe cleaners and a few tears at the poignancy of the story itself. At Preshil independent school, the ...