What Do Infants Know about Continuous Quantity?

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 20-29

  Gao, Fan ^a   Levine, Susan C ^b   Huttenlocher, Janellen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Calculation; Infants' discrimination; Mathematics; Number; Quantity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 0034266051     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1999.2556     Document Type: Article

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