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How do we make decisions about a situation we have not encountered before? New work shows that we can solve abstract problems in the same way that we can find a novel route between two known locations ...

We always hear that distancing yourself from a problem or thinking about it from a different angle is the best way to work through it. Practically speaking, that's easier said than done. However, over ...

How do we make decisions about a situation we have not encountered before? New work from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows that we can solve abstract problems ...