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
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
One result of the Egyptian's inability or disinclination for abstract thought was the necessity not only of representing the gods under special and definite forms, but even of always so thinking of them.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
