Constraints on the lexicons of human languages have cognitive roots present in baboons (Papio papio) [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]

Using a pattern extraction task, we show that baboons, like humans, have a learning bias that helps them discover connected patterns more easily than disconnected ones—i.e., they favor rules like “contains between 40% and 80% red” over rules like “contains around 30% red or 100% red.” The task was made...
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Social Sciences Source Type: research