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

“And the parts of the brain that deal with complex functions like abstract thought, working memory, creativity and socializing will be inhibited.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2022

By practicing metacognitive behaviors, you are preparing yourself to engage in the kind of rational, abstract thought that will be required for philosophy.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

It is external and internal sense experience, not abstract thought, which first brings us into direct and immediate mental contact with actually existing reality.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter