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 ...

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 ...

In a major contribution to our understanding of the evolution of human cognition, a bonobo (a.k.a. pygmy chimpanzee) has demonstrated the ability to create mental images of pretend scenarios. This ...

Abstract, immaterial, non-representational, conceptual, conjectural. These are all words you might use to discuss abstract art. I would add mysterious. There’s a gallery in Manchester, the brainchild ...