Sophia E Day, Kevin J Konty, Maya Leventer-Roberts, Cathy Nonas, Tiffany G Harris
Severe obesity among children in New York City public elementary and middle schools, school years 2006-07 through 2010-11
Preventing chronic disease
transitive inference long considered one hallmarks human deductive reasoning recent reports transitivelike behaviors nonhuman animals prompted flourishing empirical theoretical search mechanisms may mediate ability nonhumans paper begin describing transitive inference tasks customarily used nonhuman animals review empirical findings transitive inference demonstrated wide variety species signature effects usually accompany transitive inference humans serial position effect symbolic distance effect also found nonhumans critically analyze prominent models ability nonhuman animals models cognitive proposing instance animals use rules formal logic form mental representations premises solve task others based associative mechanisms value transfer reinforcement nonreinforcement overall argue reinforcementbased models much better empirical theoretical position hence transitive inference nonhuman animals considered property reinforcement history rather inferential processes finalize shedding light promising lines research