(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, psychologist Veronique Izard from the Universite Paris Descartes and her colleagues show how ...

Neuroscientists are exploring whether shapes like squares and rectangles — and our ability to recognize them — are part of what makes our species special. Credit...Video by Yoshi Sodeoka Supported by ...

Monkeys have been found to understand basic geometric problems in a similar way to humans. Geometry is the field of study that investigates the properties of shapes and space. The research team led by ...

Monkeys use some of the same basic mental strategies as people do to perceive abstract relationships between shapes, a new study suggests. The findings challenge the idea that humans crossed a sharp ...

If you've ever struggled to pack a bunch of suitcases into the trunk of your car, you've got some idea of a basic problem in materials science: if you throw a bunch of atoms or molecules together, how ...