Creativity has long been thought to involve associative processes in memory: connecting
concepts to form ideas, inventions, and artworks. However, associative thinking has been …

The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is traditionally associated with attention, perceptual
decision making and sensorimotor transformations, but more recent human neuroimaging …

Creative ideas likely result from searching and combining semantic memory knowledge, yet
the mechanisms acting on memory to yield creative ideas remain unclear. Here, we …

Learn how the brain processes mathematical concepts and why some students develop
math anxiety! David A. Sousa discusses the cognitive mechanisms for learning mathematics …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

The human brain is tightly coupled to the world through its sensory‐motor systems—but it
also spends a lot of its metabolism talking to itself. One important function of this intrinsic …

Abstract concepts play a central role in human behaviour and constitute a critical component
of the human conceptual system. Here, we investigate the neural basis of four types of …

Cognitive and neuroimaging evidence suggests that episodic and semantic memory—
memory for autobiographical events and conceptual knowledge, respectively—support …

The categorisation of long-term memory into semantic and episodic systems has been an
influential catalyst for research on human memory organisation. However, the impact of …

Previous work has emphasized that cognitive functions in the human brain are organized
into large-scale networks. However, the mechanisms that allow these networks to …