Journal article
Rats and infants as propositional reasoners: A plausible possibility?
The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.32(2), pp.203-204
04/23/2009
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X09000910
PMID: 19386180
Abstract
Mitchell et al. contemplate the possibility of rats being capable of propositional reasoning. We suggest that this is an unlikely and unsubstantiated possibility. Nonhuman animals and human infants do learn about the contingencies in the world; however, such learning seems not to be based on propositional reasoning, but on more elementary associative processes.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Rats and infants as propositional reasoners: A plausible possibility?
- Creators
- Leyre Castro - Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. leyre-castroruiz@uiowa.edued-wasserman@uiowa.eduhttp://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Edward A Wasserman - Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. leyre-castroruiz@uiowa.edued-wasserman@uiowa.eduhttp://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.32(2), pp.203-204
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York, USA
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0140525X09000910
- PMID
- 19386180
- ISSN
- 0140-525X
- eISSN
- 1469-1825
- Number of pages
- 2
- Alternative title
- Commentary/Mitchell et al.: The Propositional Nature of Human Associative Learning
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/23/2009
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070692902771
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