In cognitive tests for recognizing certain types of patterns ... paired elements buried in larger sequences, a cognitive ability known as recursion. Consider the sentence: "The cat the dog ...

Recursion involves nesting a structure within another structure, or embedding one sequence inside another, whether it's a sequence of words, events, or physical objects. A spiral staircase in ...

A multi-institutional research team found the cognitive ability to represent recursive sequences occurs in humans ... that allows humans to see patterns in information that are rich and complex ...

But “this work shows that the capacity to represent recursive sequences is present in an ... to arrange two sets of symbols in recursive patterns. Each training set consisted of four brackets ...

“There’s always been interest in whether or not nonhuman animals can also grasp recursive sequences,” says Diana Liao, a postdoctoral researcher at the lab of Andreas Nieder, a professor of ...

More information: Diana A. Liao et al, Recursive sequence generation in crows, Science Advances (2022). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq3356 ...