Extracting high-order abstract patterns from complex high-dimensional data forms the foundation of human cognitive abilities. Abstract visual reasoning involves identifying abstract patterns embedded ...

New research shows how robots can autonomously construct abstract representations of their surroundings and use them to plan for multi-step tasks. Researchers from Brown University and MIT have ...

Donald Sultan is a master of what is popularly known as Abstract Representation. He brings, in short, a formalist, abstract sensibility to his iconographic images of still life and other figurative ...

Behavioural studies have revealed that the processing and representation of numerical magnitude are qualitatively similar across species and across human development. Reliable effects such as the ...

Imagine you’re on a first date, sipping a martini at a bar. You eat an olive and patiently listen to your date tell you about his job at a bank. Your brain is processing this scene, in part, by ...