2024
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4431359/v1
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Transitive reasoning in the adult domestic hen in a six-term series task

Rachel Degrande,
Océane Amichaud,
Benoît Piégu
et al.

Abstract: Transitive inference (TI) is a disjunctive syllogism that allows an individual to indirectly infer a relationship between two components, by knowing their respective relationship to a third component (if A > B and B > C then A > C). The common procedure is the 5-terms series task, in which individuals are tested on indirect, unlearned relations. Few bird species have been tested for TI to date, which limits our knowledge of the phylogenetic spread of such reasoning ability. Here we tested TI in adult … Show more

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