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 ...

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 ...

‌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 ...

Asking “why” and conjuring up possible answers is an important thinking process. It gives rise to some of the most beautiful states of mind, such as curiosity and imagination. These psychological ...

Although the human brain is capable of sifting through a billion bits of information per second, scientists recently found that the top speed of human thought only comes in at roughly 10 bits per ...

Note that this author, Dr. Ann Olson, has published a book entitled Illuminating Schizophrenia: Insights into the Uncommon Mind. This book is available for purchase on the amazon.com website. Concrete ...

Wasps can tell the difference between pairs of stimuli that are the same or different, a task that requires the use of abstract concepts that only a small group of animals are known to grasp. The ...

A set of Stone Age artifacts have revealed evidence of advanced cognitive and symbolic behavior among prehistoric humans, a study reports. In the study, published in the journal Archaeological and ...

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 ...