Nature

Asymmetric reinforcement learning facilitates human inference of transitive relations

Humans and other animals are capable of inferring never-experienced relations (for example, A > C) from other relational observations (for example, A > B and B > C). The processes behind such ...
The Conversation

Humans and animals can both think logically − but testing what kind of logic they’re using is tricky

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 complicated picture than ...