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 ...

Machine learning and human brain scans have revealed the regions of the brain behind how we form abstract concepts, like justice, ethics, and consciousness, researchers report. “Humans have the unique ...

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 ...

The 4-layer correspondence framework used in this article: 'Abstract Concept → Device Operation → Observable Result → Limits of the Demonstration'There are many videos that demonstrate abstract ...

Abstract concept learning refers to the ability of an animal to form rules or relations that transcend specific sensory features of individual stimuli and to apply these rules to novel situations.

In a series of studies over more than 20 years, evolutionary biologists have demonstrated that paper wasps, despite their tiny brains, have an impressive capacity to learn, remember and make social ...

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 ...

Babies barely a few hours old seem to possess the ability to think of numbers as abstract concepts. Harvard University researchers say that babies barely a few hours old seem to possess the ability to ...