Among the sublime concepts that humans grasp intuitively is the concept of recursion, where something contains a kind of repetition of itself stretching out to infinity. Any "movie within a movie" ...

Brains sell magazines, mathematical linguistics sells caffeine. That basically summarizes coverage of a recent study on songbirds' "artificial grammar system". More on that later. First, a summary of ...

An aptitude for mentally stringing together related items, often cited as a hallmark of human language, may have deep roots in primate evolution, a new study suggests. But “this work shows that the ...