For some mental processes, humans and animals likely follow similar lines of thinking. Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment via Getty Images Can a monkey, a pigeon or a fish reason like a person? It’s a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don't let the googly eyes or bewildered look fool you, babies are smarter than they seem. New research has found that babies are capable of working out social hierarchies as early as 10 months old. In ...

Scientists have discovered a method to the wasp's menace which was once believed to be a trait only seen in humans. The insects also use a form of reasoning known as Transitive inference whereby known ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of scientists at the University of Michigan has observed the first instance of transitive inference in invertebrates among paper wasps. In a study featured in the journal Biology Letters, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deductive problem solving was previously thought be be beyond the reach of babies, says study lead - Human infants are capable of deductive problem solving as early as 10 months of age, a new study by ...