The unique geometric understanding of humans has been attributed to an evolutionary divide in symbolic cognition that distinguishes us from monkeys. We investigated how monkeys, preschoolers, and ...

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.

StarSpark AI tutor Sparky uses speech, handwriting recognition and grade-level pacing to teach students math reasoning rather ...

Science fiction, comic book, fantasy, and video game news. Kaylee Hottle, who portrayed Jia in ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ and ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,’ has died in a car crash. She was 18.

Tangent accepted: The modern supply chain is one of the most powerful things in the world (basically allowing all the nice things like us not living in thatched huts and eating gruel), and as such, ...

Video games are synonymous with the name Nintendo. But which of the hundreds of incredible games that have graced the legendary Japanese company’s numerous home and handheld consoles are the best?

Developmental research has identified a “cognitive bridge” between spatial and numerical reasoning in early childhood, where spatial skills reliably predict later mathematical achievement. Yet the ...

Analysis and understanding of trained deep neural networks (DNNs) can deepen our understanding of the visual mechanisms involved in primate visual perception. However, due to the limited availability ...

Generating associations is important for cognitive tasks including language acquisition and creative problem solving. It remains an open question how the brain represents and processes associations.

In primates, number neurons in a dedicated parieto-frontal network encode the number of elements in a stimulus. Number neurons in the prefrontal cortex respond in an abstract manner, and their ...