Crows are notoriously clever — the songbirds can use tools, understand the concept of zero and follow basic analogies. Now, a new study suggests that their grasp of one complex cognitive principle in ...

Among the sublime concepts that humans grasp intuitively is the concept of recursion, where something contains a kind of repetition of itself stretching out to infinity. Any "movie within a movie" ...

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An aptitude for mentally stringing together related items, often cited as a hallmark of human language, may have deep roots in primate evolution, a new study suggests. But “this work shows that the ...