One measure of intelligence is being able to learn the name of an object after only hearing it a few times, a cognitive ability known as 'fast mapping'. Humans can quickly associate an object's ...

We often view the ability to construct and learn a language as a skill set so unique it sets us apart from all other creatures in the animal kingdom. Dogs, in all their unknowing wisdom, make a mess ...

Trial and error is one of the most fundamental learning strategies employed by animals, and we’re increasingly using it to teach intelligent machines too. Boosting ...

You can add marmoset monkeys to the list of species that use “names.” But whether animals have anything more to say remains unknown. Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot, cats have ...