Preverbal Infants Are Sensitive to Cross-Sensory Correspondences: Much Ado About the Null Results of Lewkowicz and Minar (2014)

摘要

Minar and Lewkowicz (2013) previously reported their failure to replicate the results of two experiments we published in this journal (Walker et al., 2010), despite using the same stimuli. Their commentary (Lewkowicz & Minar, 2014) now explains that the sound they used differed significantly from ours, and we show here how the nature of their sound critically undermined their attempted replication. They also propose an alternative explanation of our results (though one that remains unsubstantiated). We show how their alternative explanation actually predicts that they also should have observed the results we reported, assumes infants are sensitive to the pitch-height correspondence they are attempting to deny, and is contradicted by the evidence.