Transitive responding in animals and humans: Exaptation rather than adaptation?

By J. Delius, M. Siemann. 1998

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Generalization Through the Recurrent Interaction of Episodic Memories (2012, background): “Our aim here is not to summarize what is a vast literature on the subject of transitive inferences (for reviews, see Breslow, 1981; Delius & Siemann, 1998; Moses et al., 2006) or to provide an account that encompasses the full range of findings observed within the broad range of transitive…”
Hippocampal activation during transitive inference in humans (2004, background): “It appears that transitive inference has evolved throughout phylogenesis as a beneficial strategy, for example, to infer the rank order of animals in the habitat (Delius and Siemann, 1998).”
When logic fails: Implicit transitive inference in humans (2005, background): “Rather, it can arise from simpler associative processes, in accordance with Wynne (1998) and Delius and Siemann (1998).”