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 ...

The capability to form concepts and use the words that express them (such as ‘beauty’ and ‘table’) is at the core of human cognition. This capability entails abstraction: the forming of categories by ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...