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 may be possible that men trained in abstract thought without reference to fact, the successors of many generations of men equally so trained, do consider themselves to have such a conception.
From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)
