abstract thought

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The tumour is in the right frontal lobe of Weronika's brain – the area responsible for abstract thought, creativity and concentration.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2025

Neuroscientists typically ascribe consciousness and abstract thought to the cerebral cortex, which evolved later in human evolution and wraps around the brain's outer layer in folded gray matter.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

He demonstrated that these animals were capable of abstract thought by showing that they could learn how to solve a puzzle.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Did they use language or engage in abstract thought?

From Nature • Aug. 17, 2020

And do we not by this act of faith bring our souls into that union with God which we so much desire, more truly than by any abstract thought?

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.