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Humans construct idiosyncratic, self-consistent global rankings from few-shot local evidence

2025-10-07

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Ranking—a ubiquitous relational structure—enables humans to organize complex information and overcome cognitive load, yet in real-world settings it is often inferred from sparse, few-shot learning of local pairwise relationships. How the human brain performs relational inference under such limited evidence remains unknown. We hypothesized that under few–shot learning, relational inference is shaped by inductive bi...

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Literature Corpus work: 6739de93-a434-5fba-a813-88c0a67c9cf6
DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.06.680667

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