As it tops bestsellers' lists, Dan Brown's new book, The Lost Symbol, catapulted into the mainstream the frontier science he calls "Noetics," an area of active research for over twenty-five years ...

A mysterious encrypted manuscript of a secret society, meticulously written in abstract symbols and Roman letters, has finally been deciphered more than three centuries after it was first ...

Instead, and against all expectations, they were much more likely to transfer their skills if they were taught with abstract rules and symbols. The use of concrete, real-world examples is a deeply ...

If the mind-over-matter science on display in his newest novel is to be believed, Dan Brown must be thinking really hard about selling books. Over two million copies of The Lost Symbol flew off ...

The researchers found that from very early stages, realistic figures, such as the red horses, coexisted in the cave with abstract symbols, contradicting the old theory that figurative art emerged ...

Clearly, they both have their advantages - generic examples seem easier to apply, while real-world ones are easier to pick up at the start. Even so, students who only learned the abstract symbol ...