Early cognitive psychologists defined thought as an activity that resides in the brain: Sensory data come in from eyes and ears, fingers and funny bone, and the mind turns these signals into disembodied representations that it manipulates in what we call thinking.

Where do thoughts exist?

Thoughts exist in the brain, very likely as patterns of transient electrochemical activity.

Where does thought occur in the brain?

"It's the glue of cognition." The prefrontal cortex was seen to remain active throughout most of the thought process, as would be expected for a multitasking region of the brain. The quicker the handoff from one area to the other, the faster people responded to a stimulus.