What is Abstract Reasoning?

Abstract reasoning is the human faculty that helps us detect patterns, identify relationships between events and objects, analyse situations and solve problems. It forms the core of what we commonly understand as human intelligence and is involved in understanding concepts and ideas that may not always have a physical basis. Abstract reasoning helps us derive deeper insights from ordinary things through the techniques of logic. Formulating a theory, writing a computer program, understanding a metaphor or an analogy or synthesizing a new idea from existing information – all require abstract reasoning in one form or the other..

Why train Abstract Reasoning?

Improving abstract reasoning is the holy grail of Cognition training – Yet, abstract reasoning has also been the most elusive. Improvements in abstract reasoning have been hard to come by and often unreliable. Recent research results have been very encouraging and we at Cognosia believe that there is a brighter future ahead. The abstract reasoning games have been built to engage core processes that are critical for the development of abstract reasoning in children.