Carrie and Alton Barron suggest exercise as a key method to boost creativity and abstract thinking.

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Making the information harder to read induced abstract thinking.

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Having worked their way into the upper reaches of the occupational scale, and taken note of how much the professions value abstract thinking, Asian-American parents have evidently made sure that their own children wore scientific spectacles.

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The argument for exponential advancement will hold ground only with the help of autonomous, abstract-thinking machines.

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This test, which relies on abstract spatial thinking, will now account for about two-thirds of the score, while the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) will be about a third.

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This opens the door for thinking at an abstract level about products and services.

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