The phrase "aid thinking" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you are referring to assistance in the process of thinking or reasoning, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The new software is designed to aid thinking by providing relevant information at the right time."
Alternatives: "assist thought" or "support reasoning".
The cross-party Brexit select committee issued the document, which was prepared to aid thinking inside government about possible scenarios, on Thursday.
For instance, she reveals that speakers tend to gesture more when the task becomes difficult, that gesturing can aid thinking "by reducing cognitive effort" and that speakers may increase the number of speech errors they produce when they can't gesture.
The story, this morning, of a British tourist rescued after several hours in the Atlantic ocean, bobbing afloat thanks to her handbag acting as a buoyancy aid, thinking her husband had boarded the ship and left without her, is bizarre and sad to the point of disbelief.
The attractor landscape metaphor [ 16] was used to aid thinking about the difference between distal and proximal opportunity factors and to provide codes.
The proposed model of physicians' communication with patients about adherence – and the identification of awkwardness and believability as key issues – may aid thinking on the subject for use in clinical practice and future research.
The aim is to aid thinking, guide future work and stimulate debate.
"The billboards are exacerbating sexist tensions in the black community, because a lot of black men are drinking the kool-aid, thinking that suddenly the black community is disappearing because of family planning," said Loretta Ross.
In this respect, feelings are an aid to thinking and to managing; they are a real part of real work.
The framework provides a set of fundamental concepts that aid in thinking about the air pointing domain, in characterizing and comparing existing solutions, and in evaluating novel techniques.
Where things go wrong is where tools of this kind are used not as an aid to thinking but as a substitute for thinking.
"I am three times more upset than an average American," Dr. Shaikh said, "as an American citizen, as a Muslim and as someone who had them in his house, and sometimes I feel I should seek some psychological aid in thinking straight and be more optimistic".
