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Camarena HO, García-Leal O, Burgos JE, et al. Transitive Inference Remains Despite Overtraining on Premise Pair C+D. Front Psychol. 2018;9:1791doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01791.
Camarena, H. O., García-Leal, O., Burgos, J. E., Parrado, F., & Ávila-Chauvet, L. (2018). Transitive Inference Remains Despite Overtraining on Premise Pair C+D. Frontiers in psychology, 91791. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01791
Camarena, Héctor O, et al. "Transitive Inference Remains Despite Overtraining on Premise Pair C+D." Frontiers in psychology vol. 9 (2018): 1791. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01791
Camarena HO, García-Leal O, Burgos JE, Parrado F, Ávila-Chauvet L. Transitive Inference Remains Despite Overtraining on Premise Pair C+D. Front Psychol. 2018 Oct 02;9:1791. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01791. eCollection 2018. PMID: 30333770; PMCID: PMC6175974.
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Front Psychol. 2018 Oct 02;9:1791. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01791. eCollection 2018.

Transitive Inference Remains Despite Overtraining on Premise Pair C+D.

Frontiers in psychology

Héctor O Camarena, Oscar García-Leal, José E Burgos, Felipe Parrado, Laurent Ávila-Chauvet

Affiliations

  1. Center for Studies and Investigations in Behavior, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico.

PMID: 30333770 PMCID: PMC6175974 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01791

Abstract

Transitive inference (TI) has been studied in humans and several animals such as rats, pigeons and fishes. Using different methods for training premises it has been shown that a non-trained relation between stimuli can be stablished, so that if A > B > C > D > E, then B > D. Despite the widely reported cases of TI, the specific mechanisms underlying this phenomenon remain under discussion. In the present experiment pigeons were trained in a TI procedure with four premises. After being exposed to all premises, the pigeons showed a consistent preference for B over D during the test. After overtraining C+D- alone, B was still preferred over D. However, the expected pattern of training performance (referred to as serial position effect) was distorted, whereas TI remained unaltered. The results are discussed regarding value transfer and reinforcement contingencies as possible mechanisms. We conclude that reinforcement contingencies can affect training performance without altering TI.

Keywords: bias reversal; overtraining; reinforcement; transitive inference; value transfer

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