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  • Animal Behavior

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  • Inferential reasoning is crucial for navigating novel situations using memory schemas.
  • Prefrontal cortical-hippocampal circuits are hypothesized to support inferential reasoning.
  • Current rodent transitive inference (TI) tasks have limitations for mechanistic studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel, automated spatial TI task for rats.
  • To investigate schema-based inference and spatial deliberation in rodents.
  • To explore the behavioral correlates of inferential reasoning and uncertainty.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an automated spatial TI task using a radial maze.
  • Trained rats on adjacent premise pairs (e.g., A>B).
  • Assessed inference on test pairs (e.g., B>D) and vicarious trial and error (VTE).

Main Results:

  • Rats successfully learned premise pairs and demonstrated rapid inference.
  • Inference accuracy was higher than premise learning, suggesting schema use.
  • VTE behavior correlated with learning uncertainty and varied during inference testing.

Conclusions:

  • The spatial TI task is feasible for studying rodent inferential reasoning.
  • The task provides insights into behavioral correlates of schemas and deliberation.
  • Individual variability in VTE suggests differences in schema utilization.