Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For some mental processes, humans and animals likely follow similar lines of thinking. Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment via Getty ...

A new study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the lowly paper wasp. A new ...

Human infants are capable of deductive problem solving as early as 10 months of age, a new study by psychologists at Emory University and Bucknell finds. The journal Developmental Science is ...

The insects frequently found in your backyard appear to be the first invertebrate known to be capable of the skill of transitive inference. By Cara Giaimo Here’s a pop quiz for you. Tom is taller than ...

Logical reasoning is complex behaviour, and has often been thought to be limited to animals that have complex nervous systems. But a new study shows that wasps can use a kind of logical deduction, the ...

Macaques can use logical reasoning to think through tasks, a finding that adds to the growing evidence that animals don’t just make choices purely to maximise the reward they get. Greg Jensen at ...

Human infants are capable of deductive problem solving as early as 10 months of age, a new study by psychologists at Emory University and Bucknell finds. The journal Developmental Science is ...

A male fish can size up potential rivals, and even rank them from strongest to weakest, simply by watching how they perform in territorial fights with other males, according to a new study by Stanford ...

ANN ARBOR--A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Can a monkey, a pigeon or a fish reason like a person? It’s a question scientists have been testing in increasingly creative ways – and what we’ve found so far paints a more ...