The insects frequently found in your backyard appear to be the first invertebrate known to be capable of the skill of transitive inference. By Cara Giaimo Here’s a pop quiz for you. Tom is taller than ...

A team of scientists at the University of Michigan has observed the first instance of transitive inference in invertebrates among paper wasps. In a study featured in the journal Biology Letters, ...

ANN ARBOR--A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the ...

Mastering the art of deduction was once thought to be a singularly human skill, but research has since shown that animals, including chimpanzees, birds, rats, fish and geese, are capable of using a ...

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 ...

Human infants are capable of deductive problem solving as early as 10 months of age, a new study by psychologists at Emory University and Bucknell finds. The journal Developmental Science is ...