Abstract painting can be a way to explore ideas without focusing on exactly how something looks. Abstract paintings use bright colours and detailed patterns, or can be monochromatic and simple. They ...

Staring into the soothing lines of an image that you can't quite describe is one of the joys of looking at abstract art. It turns out that it's also one of the style's major benefits. New research ...

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 abstract concepts, ...