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·October 27, 2025·5 min read

Coding Comes Naturally to the Human Brain

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning. Researchers found that when people learned programming, the same fronto-parietal brain regions that processed logical statements also lit up for computer code.

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·April 26, 2025·6 min read

Critical Hub for Logical Thinking Identified

Researchers have identified that the right frontal lobe plays a critical role in logical thinking and problem-solving. Using lesion-deficit mapping in 247 patients with brain injuries, they found that damage to this area leads to significantly more reasoning errors.

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·August 25, 2024·4 min read

How Logical Thinking and Empathy Define Wisdom

A new study reveals that people across 12 countries and five continents perceive wisdom through two key dimensions: reflective orientation and socio-emotional awareness. Reflective orientation includes logical thinking and emotion control, while socio-emotional awareness focuses on empathy and social context. These dimensions consistently influence how individuals judge wisdom in leaders, scientists, and others. The findings highlight the universal principles that shape perceptions of wisdom and their implications for leadership and education.

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·September 5, 2023·7 min read

Toddlers Use Logic Before Language

Toddlers as young as 19 months old exhibit natural logical thinking, independent of language knowledge. This ability, manifesting as exclusion by elimination, allows toddlers to make conclusions about unknown realities by discounting known impossibilities. \

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·March 20, 2023·4 min read

Americans’ IQ Scores Are Lower in Some Areas, Higher in One

While scores for verbal reasoning and matrix reasoning have decreased, scores for spatial reasoning have improved, researchers report.

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·February 13, 2023·5 min read

Children Use the Same Brain Network as Adults for Tough Problems

Adults and children as young as 4 utilize the same neural network, the multiple demand network, to help solve difficult cognitive problems. The findings demonstrate this important network for problem-solving and attention develops early in life.

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·October 13, 2022·5 min read

Memory and Logic Test Detects Dementia Signs up to Nine Years Ahead of Diagnosis

People who later developed Alzheimer's disease scored poorly on memory and logic-based tests, as well as reaction times and grip tests. They were also more likely to have experienced a fall within the past 12 months. Those who developed PSP were twice as likely to experience a fall.

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·August 13, 2022·6 min read

Cognitive Biases and Brain Biology Help Explain Why Facts Don’t Change Minds

Our worldview forms during childhood as a result of our socialization within a particular cultural context. Our views get reinforced over time by the social groups we keep, the media we consume, and even the way in which our brains are wired. Challenging our worldviews with facts can feel like an attack on our personal identities and can often result in hardening our positions. Researchers assess how we can open our minds and explore facts that may go against our personal worldviews.

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·July 27, 2019·5 min read

The politics of fear: How it manipulates us to tribalism

Using fear as a political platform has created a resurgence in feelings of tribalism. The utilization of fear as a political tool is uninformed, illogical and can result in increased social violence. A new study looks at the impact of the politics of fear on tribalism.

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·July 18, 2019·3 min read

How people engage with science can promote unbelief or beliefs about God(s)

Study suggests those who feel in awe of scientific discoveries are more likely to believe in a god, while those who are more inclined to logical thinking were less likely to believe in a deity.