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Infants' Perseverative Search Errors Are Induced by Pragmatic Misinterpretation

Published:2008-09-26 Issue:5897 Volume:321 Page:1831-1834
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Topál József¹²³⁴,Gergely György¹²³⁴,Miklósi Ádám¹²³⁴,Erdőhegyi Ágnes¹²³⁴,Csibra Gergely¹²³⁴

Affiliation:

1. Research Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest H-1132, Hungary.

2. Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest H-1051, Hungary.

3. Department of Ethology, Eötvös University, Budapest H-1117, Hungary.

4. School of Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1 E7HX, UK.

Abstract

Having repeatedly retrieved an object from a location, human infants tend to search the same place even when they observe the object being hidden at another location. This perseverative error is usually explained by infants' inability to inhibit a previously rewarded search response or to recall the new location. We show that the tendency to commit this error is substantially reduced (from 81 to 41%) when the object is hidden in front of 10-month-old infants without the experimenter using the communicative cues that normally accompany object hiding in this task. We suggest that this improvement is due to an interpretive bias that normally helps infants learn from demonstrations but misleads them in the context of a hiding game. Our finding provides an alternative theoretical perspective on the nature of infants' perseverative search errors.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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