Comment on "Infants' Perseverative Search Errors Are Induced by Pragmatic Misinterpretation"

J. P. Spencer; E. Dineva; L. B. Smith

doi:10.1126/science.1172759

Comment on "Infants' Perseverative Search Errors Are Induced by Pragmatic Misinterpretation"

J. P. Spencer, E. Dineva, L. B. Smith

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Abstract

Topál et al. (Reports, 26 September 2008, p. 1831) proposed that infants' perseverative search errors can be explained by ostensive cues from the experimenter. We use the dynamic field theory to test the proposal that infants encode locations more weakly when social cues are present. Quantitative simulations show that this account explains infants' performance without recourse to the theory of natural pedagogy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1624
Number of pages	1
Journal	Science
Volume	325
Issue number	5948
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1172759
Publication status	Published - Sep 2009

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