Jose Pena ’25, Tess Cody ’25, and Yamilet Nieves Vega ’26
Transitive Inference in Rats
Jose Pena ’25, Neuroscience major
Tess Cody ’25, English and Neuroscience major
Yamilet Nieves Vega ’26, Neuroscience and Health Policy and Management major
Faculty mentor: Dr. Victoria Templer, Neuroscience
Transitive Inference (TI) is a form of deductive reasoning that involves the use of explicitly learned relationships (e.g. A+>B-, B+>C-) to make inferences about implicitly related stimuli (A>C). In the current study, we trained rats on overlapping olfactory stimulus discriminations (A<B, B<C, C<D, D<E) and then tested them on non-adjacent novel pairs (B>D) to test their ability to use TI.
Poster Presentation: Wednesday, April 23, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
