This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A competition for attention lies at the heart ...

Using 20 years of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from tens of thousands of brain imaging experiments, computational neuroscientists have created a geometry-based method for massive ...

ON Thursday evening, May 4, the first “James Forrest” Lecture was delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers, by Dr. William Anderson, F.R.S. The subject was “the interdependence of abstract ...

People often believe the ability to think abstractly is distinctly human, but a new study in mallard ducklings shows otherwise. The baby fowl can decipher abstract relationships between shapes and ...

Researchers have leveraged machine learning to interpret human brain scans, allowing the team to uncover the regions of the brain behind how abstract concepts, like justice, ethics and consciousness, ...