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 ...

We all have the habit of trying to guess the killer in a movie before the big reveal. That’s us making inferences. It’s what happens when your brain connects the dots without being told everything ...

Within the first year of life, children can make transitive inferences about a social hierarchy of dominance. Human infants are capable of deductive problem solving as early as 10 months of age, a new ...

A formal logical system rests on foundational truths, known as axioms, which are so self-evident they require no proof. It then uses rules of inference to deduce further true assertions.

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 ...