The study of stimulus equivalence and relational learning offers a vital framework for understanding how organisms, including humans, organise and generalise information without explicit training.

The researchers speculate that language learning may even capitalize on this pre-existing relational ability. "Comparison within pairs promotes analogical abstraction in three-month-olds" published ...

Analogical ability -- the ability to see common relations between objects, events or ideas -- is a key skill that underlies human intelligence and differentiates humans from other apes. While there is ...

When you think about your favorite teacher, you probably don’t remember what grades they gave you—you remember how they made you feel. Maybe they got you excited about a book or a science experiment, ...