In this article, we review some of the most provocative experimental results to have emerged from comparative labs in the past few years, starting with research focusing on contingency learning and finishing with experiments exploring nonhuman animals' understanding of causal-logical relations. Although the theoretical explanation for these results is often inchoate, a clear pattern nevertheless emerges. The comparative evidence does not fit comfortably into either the traditional associationist or inferential alternatives that have dominated comparative debate for many decades now. Indeed, the similarities and differences between human and nonhuman causal cognition seem to be much more multifarious than these dichotomous alternatives allow.

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人类和非人类动物的因果认知：比较，批判性评论。

在本文中，我们回顾了过去几年中来自比较实验室的一些最具启发性的实验结果，首先是侧重于偶然性学习的研究，最后是探索非人类动物对因果关系的理解的实验。尽管对这些结果的理论解释通常是早期的，但仍然出现了清晰的模式。比较证据不能令人满意地适合于数十年来主导比较辩论的传统协会主义者或推论性选择。确实，人类和非人类因果认知之间的异同似乎比这些二分选择所允许的更为广泛。