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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. AI has gotten pretty good at completing specific tasks, but it’s still a long way from having general intelligence, the kind of all around smarts that would let AI navigate the ...

A seemingly intense "abstract reasoning" job assessment has gained traction online, with Reddit users finding themselves struggling to solve it. The task itself has sparked criticism over the use of ...

Manipulating content within fixed logical structures. In each of the author’s three datasets, they instantiate different versions of the logical problems. Different versions of a problem offer the ...

Age-related declines in abstract reasoning ability predict increasing depressive symptoms in subsequent years, according to data from a longitudinal study of older adults in Scotland. The research is ...

Abstract thinking helps you find patterns in data and explain meaning through stories and ideas. It also supports humor, creativity, and problem-solving beyond what you can observe. Concrete thinking ...

My colleague Sarah Sparks has written a fascinating article about research that shows just what is going on inside a child’s head when that child is doing tasks such as cutting out shapes or coloring ...

In new research, neuroscientists find that even high-performing schools don't influence their students' abstract reasoning. MIT neuroscientists find even high-performing schools don't influence their ...