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

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

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 ...

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 ...