Word sequence puzzles constitute fascinating (and fun) experiments in associative thinking—that is, experiments in how we make semantic, conceptual, or formal connections among the words in a set.

A new study published in npj Science of Learning provides evidence that creative thinking may help students remember new information, such as foreign language vocabulary, by boosting their ability to ...

Humans engage in 2 modes of thinking: an associative mode and a reasoning mode. Institutions and scientific education primarily have focused on reasoning, even though the associative mode is linked to ...

Encouraging different thought processes, even those typically classified as “abnormal,” can be a great boon to the research enterprise. Whether it’s heat, emotions, or stress, the body sweats it out ...

The barrel cortex, a specialised region within the rodent somatosensory cortex, plays a central role in the processing of tactile information derived from the whiskers. Recent studies have elucidated ...