Infants' perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5897, 2008, Pages 1831-1834

  Topál, József ^a   Gergely, György ^a,b   Miklósi, Ádám ^c   Erdohegyi, Ágnes ^c   Csibra, Gergely ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE; PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSEVERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REWARD;

COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL;

EID: 52949112259     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161437     Document Type: Article

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25. We thank J. Bognár for her assistance in data collection, and V. Southgate and J. Watson for helpful comments. Supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (T049615), the EU6 Framework Programme (NEUROCOM grant 12738, EDICI grant 12929), and the Bolyai Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.