FRANKFORT — The sun hadn’t yet rose when Mercedes Michalowski made her way to the Elizabeth Lane Oliver Center for the Arts with plans to photograph an exhibition. It was an early morning in mid-March ...
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How we use abstract thinking

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While we’ve become increasingly reliant on metrics for design decisions, there is something more powerful in human creativity: the art of mental stargazing and the hidden currents of our intuition.
Almost 190 people were part of the research at Kettle's Yard gallery in Cambridge Visiting an art museum could change how we think about our lives, according to researchers. A University of Cambridge ...
Since the dawn of philosophy, thinkers from Plato to Kant have considered how beauty affects human experience, and whether it has the power to transform our state of mind. Now, a new study from the ...
Asking “why” and conjuring up possible answers is an important thinking process. It gives rise to some of the most beautiful states of mind, such as curiosity and imagination. These psychological ...
This discovery challenges the notion that abstract and symbolic thinking began only 40,000 years ago.