Transitive inference formation in pigeons.

By L. Fersen, C. Wynne, J. Delius, J. Staddon. 1991

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Generalization Through the Recurrent Interaction of Episodic Memories (2012, background): “…the PAI and AE paradigms cannot easily be accounted for by value transfer theory (i.e., a difference in the reinforcement value of the individual stimuli themselves), a mechanism that may well contribute to performance in the transitive inference task (Frank et al., 2003; von Fersen et al., 1991).”
Transitive responding in animals and humans: Exaptation rather than adaptation? (1998, background): “When the previously mentioned value transfer theory of transitive responding was published (von Fersen et al., 1991) it met with immediate criticism.”
Transitivity, flexibility, conjunctive representations, and the hippocampus. I. An empirical analysis (2003, background): “This account of transitive test performance captures the essence of the value transfer theory offered by von Fersen et al. (1991) and makes it clear that differential excitatory weights would be sufficient to support performance on the training pairs (see Frank et al., submitted, for a concrete,…”
When logic fails: Implicit transitive inference in humans (2005, background): “In other words, this anchoring effect causes approach-and-avoid associations to “bleed” over to adjacent stimuli B and E (for more explicit analyses of these and related ideas, see Frank et al., 2003; Levy & Wu, 1997; Siemann & Delius, 1998; cf. von Fersen et al., 1991).”