When you can connect ideas, see beyond the obvious, and imagine hypothetical scenarios, you're using a skill known as abstract thinking. Also known as abstract reasoning, it involves the ability to ...
Age-related declines in abstract reasoning ability predict increasing depressive symptoms in subsequent years, according to data from a longitudinal study of older adults in Scotland. Age-related ...
The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...