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Transitive reasoning as linear classification

2026-06-28

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Transitive inference (TI) is the ability to reason about transitive relationships in an ordered set of items (e.g., if A>B and B>C, then A>C). TI is widely held to depend on a linear representation of the serial (rank) order of those items. By what computational mechanism is such an ordering constructed during learning, and how is it used to make choices that obey transitivity? Here we take a minimalist approach,...

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Literature Corpus work: da54d736-a994-5166-b0c8-c19fffa9c06c
DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.24.734346

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