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 ...

The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime ... In the Fibonacci sequence, every term builds on the ones that came before it. Such recursive sequences can exhibit a wide range ...

This adjustment reduced the likelihood of the crows succeeding through simple pattern recognition alone. Even with this added difficulty, the crows continued to produce recursive sequences more ...

Scientists have long wondered whether understanding these patterns is unique to humans. “There’s always been interest in whether or not nonhuman animals can also grasp recursive sequences ...

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 ...

Monkeys’ greater difficulty learning recursive sequences, relative to people ... trained 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 ...

"Recursion is a way to organize information that allows humans to see patterns in information that ... the researchers provided each group with sequences to order. They studied how each group ...