2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.103203
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Disjunctive inference in preverbal infants

Abstract: Summary Can preverbal infants utilize logical reasoning such as disjunctive inference? This logical operation requires keeping two alternatives open (A or B), until one of them is eliminated (if not A), allowing the inference: B is true. We presented to 10-month-old infants an ambiguous situation in which a female voice was paired with two faces. Subsequently, one of the two faces was presented with the voice of a male. We measured infants' preference for the correct face when both faces and the ini… Show more

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“…Recent work on the development of possibility concepts reveals a confusing pattern of infant successes and preschool failures. Infants make inferences to disambiguate the referent of an ambiguous expression (Pomiechowska et al 2020), the identity of an ambiguous object (Cesana-Arlotti et al, 2018), or the source of an ambiguous voice (Ekramnia et al, 2021). Show a 12-month-old a familiar and an unfamiliar object -for example, a ball and a hole punch.…”
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“…Recent work on the development of possibility concepts reveals a confusing pattern of infant successes and preschool failures. Infants make inferences to disambiguate the referent of an ambiguous expression (Pomiechowska et al 2020), the identity of an ambiguous object (Cesana-Arlotti et al, 2018), or the source of an ambiguous voice (Ekramnia et al, 2021). Show a 12-month-old a familiar and an unfamiliar object -for example, a ball and a hole punch.…”
Section: A Conflict In Existing Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…How do infants infer that "moxi" refers to the unfamiliar object? Perhaps they deploy the disjunctive syllogism (A or B; not A; therefore B, (Cesana-Arlotti et al, 2018;Ekramnia et al, 2021)) or reason about possibilities (Maybe A, maybe B, and nothing else; Not A; therefore B (Cesana-Arlotti et al, 2022)).…”
Section: A Conflict In Existing Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
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