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Science 25 September 2009:
Vol. 325. no. 5948, p. 1624
DOI: 10.1126/science.1173024
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Response to Comment on "Infants’ Perseverative Search Errors Are Induced by Pragmatic Misinterpretation"

József Topál,1,* Mária Tóth,2 György Gergely,2 Gergely Csibra2

Spencer et al. argue that infants’ perseverative search errors cannot be ascribed to an interpretive bias induced by communicative cues as we proposed. We argue that their model leads to different predictions about infant behavior from those derived from natural pedagogy in certain situations and therefore fails to provide a viable alternative to ours.

1 Research Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest H-1132, Hungary.
2 Central European University, Budapest H-1051, Hungary.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: topaljozsef{at}gmail.com

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