Elucidating the nature, use, and origin of knowledge in animals is one of the major
endeavors of comparative psychology. Two aspects of knowledge used in inferential …

Note from the Editors: To help our readers understand why we have decided to include
Doctor Fomomindo's admittedly unusual (and eternally unfinished) catalog (the …

Like scientists, children seek ways to explain causal systems in the world. But are children
scientists in the strict Bayesian tradition of maximizing posterior probability? Or do they …

We investigated whether nonhuman great apes (N= 23), 2.5-year-old (N= 20), and 3-year-
old children (N= 40) infer causal relations from patterns of variation and covariation by …

The emergence of novel behavior is a multilayered phenomenon that comprehends distinct
processes. One such process is known as insightful problem solving.“Insight” can be …

Human children and apes seem to be intuitive statisticians when making predictions from
populations of objects to randomly drawn samples, whereas monkeys seem not to be …

Humans must understand their world in order to act on it. I develop this premise into a set of
empirical claims concerning the organization of the mind—namely, claims about strategies …

Humans' flexible innovation relies on our capacity to accurately predict objects' behaviour.
These predictions may originate from a “physics-engine” in the brain which simulates our …

Generating explanations and making comparisons are cognitive processes that can have
powerful effects on learning. Self-explanation and comparison can be interconnected; …

Os catetos (Tayassu tajacu, Linnaeus, 1758) são suiformes selvagens pertencentes o
gênero Tayassu que apresenta ampla distribuição geográfica. O macaco-prego (Cebus …