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

It is a profession that thrives on abstract thought and, often, an other-worldly detachment from reality.

From Nature • Apr. 5, 2020

Symbolism remained, while the abstract thought, to which that symbolism should have been a stepping-stone, failed to penetrate into Egyptian religion.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)