The development of inductive reasoning during infancy
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Category-based inductive reasoning involves assuming that members of the same category share common properties. This form of reasoning allows individuals to draw upon previous knowledge, enhancing cognitive efficiency. This review paper focuses on the advances made in research on category-based inductive reasoning over the past 25 years, with specific focus on infants between the ages of 12 and 36 months. Three key lines of research are reviewed: studies demonstrating the role of shape similarity in guiding inferences, studies examining the conditions under which infants rely on shared labels to guide their inferencing, and studies examining how generic language statements guide toddlers' inductive inferences. Finally, directions for future research are discussed, with particular focus on the need to examine the developmental origins of inductive reasoning in infants younger than 12 months.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it