Recursion -- the computational capacity to embed elements within elements of the same kind -- has been lauded as the intellectual cornerstone of language, tool use and mathematics. A ...

A multi-institutional research team found the cognitive ability to represent recursive sequences occurs in humans and non-human primates across age, education, culture and species. Recursion -- the ...

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An aptitude for mentally stringing together related items, often cited as a hallmark of human language, may have deep roots in primate evolution, a new study suggests. But “this work shows that the ...

We study the large exceedance probabilities and large exceedance paths of the recursive sequence Vn = Mn Vn−1 + Qn, where {(Mn, Qn)} is an i.i.d. sequence, and M1 is a d × d random matrix and Q1 is a ...

Combining parallel multiple recursive sequences provides an efficient way of implementing random number generators with long periods and good structural properties. Such generators are statistically ...