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 ...

How does the human brain construct cognitive maps for decision-making and inference? Here, we conduct an fMRI study on a navigation task in multidimensional abstract spaces. Using a deep neural ...

The ability to generalize existing knowledge to novel stimuli or situations is essential to complex, rapid, and accurate behavior. As an example, when shopping for produce, humans make many different ...

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 ...

A new study uses MEG imaging to prove that bilingual brains rely on a single, shared grammar engine across all spoken languages.