Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like humans, by forming inferences about their surroundings—for instance, squirrels ...

Source: "Working dog" by Lisa Norwood/CC BY 2.0 It is often claimed by their human counterparts that dogs do not have the capacity to reason because they lack language capacity. Instead, they think in ...

A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences -- finding hidden connections between different experiences -- changes dramatically as we age ...