What Can We Learn From Humans About Orthographic Processing in Monkeys? A Reply to Frost and Keuleers (2013)

摘要

In their commentary on our two recent articles (Grainger, Dufau, Montant, Ziegler, & Fagot, 2012; Ziegler et al., 2013), Frost and Keuleers (2013; this issue) state that the conclusions drawn on the basis of our orthographiclearning studies with baboons are “logically fallacious and do not withstand empirical scrutiny” (p. 1868). Here, we clarify our conclusions, and we show that they follow the logic of scientific inference and are supported by the empirical data. We then show that Frost and Keuleers’s conclusion that monkeys simply learn probabilistic conjunctions of unordered individual shapes is wrong.