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Inferential reasoning in non-humans: a critical analysis of experimental evidence
Dániel Rivas-Blanco, Marco Vasconcelos, Friederike Range…·Tiago Monteiro
This paper challenges the interpretation of animal behavior as inferential reasoning, arguing that correct choices in experimental tasks can result from stimulus-response associations rather than logical reasoning.
DOI 10.1101/2025.09.23.678036