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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prior work suggests that category learning can reshape perception by shifting perceived similarity among instances. Most evidence comes from artificial stimuli and small category sets. We examined ...

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 ...

When speaking at IT meetups or conferences, leaning too far toward either concrete details or abstract concepts makes it ...

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 ...