Articles tagged with Recursion
New research reveals that indigenous Tsimane' people, American adults, preschoolers, and macaque monkeys exhibit similar recursion skills, indicating a shared cognitive process for conveying complex commands and ideas.
A multi-institutional research team found that humans and non-human primates can represent recursive sequences, suggesting a universal cognitive ability. The study's findings dispel the long-held belief that only humans possess this capacity.
A genetic mutation may have triggered acquisition of recursive language and modern imagination in two or more children around 70,000 years ago. This would explain the long-standing mystery of language evolution and the emergence of modern human cognition.
Researchers created a predictive model to identify inhibitors of the multi-drug resistance associated protein-2 efflux transporter, achieving prediction accuracy of up to 0.79. The support vector machine model built on selected features showed the best performance.
Researchers developed Bellmania, a system that enables non-experts to optimize dynamic programming algorithms for multicore chips. The system guarantees identical results with faster execution speeds, outperforming human programming in optimization tasks.
Critically ill patients who have been mechanically ventilated for more than seven days are at greatly increased risk for functional impairment and mortality. FIM score, Charlson score, and age independently predicted mortality and disability at one year after discharge.
A team at Recursion Pharmaceuticals aims to accelerate the development of therapies for rare diseases by leveraging custom-designed software and human cellular models. The approach has already led to the identification of potential treatments for cerebral cavernous malformation, a rare hereditary vascular disease.
A new study explains why consumers agonize over minor decisions like toothbrushes and breakfast cereals. People assume difficult decisions are important, leading to increased time and effort spent on them.
Researchers found humans can engage in higher levels of recursive reasoning, making decisions based on anticipated opponent moves. The study used a game called the "3-2-1-4 Game" and showed participants could easily move beyond first-level thinking to more complex strategies.
Researchers used recursion to correct errors in synthetic DNA building blocks, producing flawless long DNA molecules in just two rounds of construction. The new method improves upon existing methods by increasing speed and precision.
A study analyzing 13 biomarkers found that combinations of neuroendocrine and immune markers were associated with high-risk pathways in men, while systolic blood pressure was linked to female high-risk pathways. Recursive partitioning identified the importance of biological regulatory systems in predicting mortality in later life.
Researchers found that starlings can learn to distinguish between two different patterns of organizing sounds used for communication, including recursive center-embedding. This ability challenges the long-held assumption that human language is uniquely complex and computational.
Researchers found that starlings can classify acoustic sequences defined by recursive grammars, a feature thought to be exclusive to humans. The birds learned to distinguish between two sets of songs using abstract patterns and performed well above chance when tested with novel combinations.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a novel mechanism called recursive splicing, which removes long introns by steadily paring them down in a predictable fashion and joining the remaining exons. This process has been conserved over tens of millions of years of insect evolution and is likely to occur in humans.