To understand complex objects, humans are known to mentally transform them and represent them as a combination of simpler ...

These transformations provide the basic compositional strategies of our method. Thus, the minimal compositional element is the sound event, an ecologically meaningful unit. The macro-organization of ...

Iron is the main ingredient in various forms of iron and steel, but the various types of metals contain other elements as well. Sometimes these elements are unwanted; other times they're ...

Wild bonobos – our closest living relatives – communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key features of human language, according to a new ...