Crows Spontaneously Exhibit Analogical Reasoning
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Crows Spontaneously Exhibit Analogical Reasoning
Analogical reasoning is vital to advanced cognition and behavioral adaptation. Many theorists deem analogical thinking to be uniquely human and to be foundational to categorization, creative problem solving, and scientific discovery. Comparative psychologists have long been interested in the species generality of analogical reasoning, but they initially found it difficult to obtain empirical su...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.063