When you can connect ideas, see beyond the obvious, and imagine hypothetical scenarios, you're using a skill known as abstract thinking. Also known as abstract reasoning, it involves the ability to ...

Theory: The dreads and dangers of abstract thinking are a big reason why we now all like to stay so busy and bombarded with stimuli all the time. Abstract thinking tends most often to strike during ...

Observing the activity of an individual brain cell in humans for the first time, scientists have found that neurons can differentiate objects or people regardless of the contexts in which they were ...

While we’ve become increasingly reliant on metrics for design decisions, there is something more powerful in human creativity: the art of mental stargazing and the hidden currents of our intuition.

The Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) and Miami University’s College of Education, Health, and Society (EHS) and College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) have partnered to make a new series ...

Partisans beware! Some of your most cherished political attitudes may be malleable! Researchers report that simply answering three "why" questions on an innocuous topic leads people to be more ...

Why is mathematics so complicated? It’s a question many students will ask while grappling with a particularly complex calculus problem — and their teachers will probably echo while setting or marking ...

This is an opinion editorial by Sydney Bright, a software developer with a master’s degree in biomedical engineering. Bitcoin is not merely a medium of exchange. That is not to say that bitcoin is not ...

‌Concrete thinking is a more literal form of thinking that focuses on the physical world. Concrete thinkers may take information at face value without thinking beyond or generalizing the information ...