At its core, realistic art is built from abstract decisions long before details ever appear. This video explains how shapes, ...

Lots of the things we hope to do in life-our goals-can be accomplished in many ways. If you want to go into business for yourself, you might first train at a company that does similar work and then ...

At first, abstract art and realistic art seem completely opposite, but they are deeply connected at a fundamental level. In ...

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

A new study documents the brain activity underlying our strong tendency to infer a structure of context and rules when learning new tasks (even when a structure isn't valid). The findings, which ...

Lots of the things we hope to do in life-our goals-can be accomplished in many ways. If you want to go into business for yourself, you might first train at a company that does similar work and then ...