We hypothesized that impaired abstract thinking may interfere with the rules abstraction component of artificial grammar learning.
Pure abstract thinking is still too difficult.
Level II, conceptual ability, involved abstract thinking and problem-solving.
Pretending that blocks are people, they practice abstract thinking.
This puts the brain into abstract thinking mode, and the researchers said that there is decades of work to show that abstract thinking increases creativity.
These regions are concerned with speech, and with such "higher" functions as abstract thinking and judgment.
LARCHMONT "Abstract Thinking," David Collins, Yolanda Sanchez, Josette Urso and Katia Santibañez.
On the one hand is abstract thinking, basically a tool kit of rules that can be applied in new situations.
This can be rather enjoyable, though, and abstract thinking has proved to be a useful part of human nature.
Such hypnagogic experiences seem to combine abstract thinking with recall of recent events (known in psychoanalytical terms as day residues).
Based on considerable evidence of this sort, many are reluctant to say that animals are incapable of abstract thinking.
