Zhang et al. (2022)

Neural correlates of transitive inference: An SDM meta-analysis on 32 fMRI studies

NeuroImage, 258, 119354

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Zhang, X., Qiu, Y., Li, J., Jia, C., Liao, J., Chen, K., Qiu, L., Yuan, Z., & Huang, R. (2022). Neural correlates of transitive inference: An SDM meta-analysis on 32 fMRI studies. NeuroImage, 258, 119354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119354

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Integrative Inference Memory Processes

Neural substrate

A meta-analysis of 32 fMRI studies found hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, posterior parietal and retrosplenial cortex engaged during transitive inference, with hippocampus, medial prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortex shared by hierarchical and associative inference tasks
Measured in humans

Two standard paradigms are built for this ability: associative inference (study overlapping pairs AB and BC, then test the never-studied AC pair) and transitive inference (learn premise pairs A>B, B>C, C>D, D>E, then test novel pairs such as B?D); enough studies use them that a 2022 meta-analysis could pool 32 fMRI experiments