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 ...

Recursion -- the computational capacity to embed elements within elements of the same kind -- has been lauded as the intellectual cornerstone of language, tool use and mathematics. A ...

One of the biggest surprises in molecular biology was the discovery in 1977 that coding information in genes is interrupted by non-coding sequences known as introns. Much has since been learned about ...

Humans and monkeys may not speak the same lingo, but our ways of thinking are a lot more similar than previously thought, according to new research. Humans and monkeys may not speak the same lingo, ...

A linear-recursive-sequence (LRS) generator produces binary sequences using a shift register and feedback through an exclusive-OR gate. The sequence length equals 2 N ­1, where N represents the number ...