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

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 ...

The most critical attribute of human language is its unbounded combinatorial nature: smaller elements can be combined into larger structures on the basis of a grammatical system, resulting in a ...

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 ...

Lots of the things we hope to do in life-our goals-can be accomplished in many ways. If you want to go into business for yourself, you might first train at a company that does similar work and then ...