Infants' discrimination of number vs. continuous extent

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-66

  Feigenson, Lisa ^a   Carey, Susan ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RANDOMIZATION; VIDEORECORDING;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATHEMATICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0036481546     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cogp.2001.0760     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Antell, S. E., & Keating, L. E. (1983). Perception of numerical invariance in neonates. Child Development, 54, 695-701.
2. Bijeljac-Babic, R., Bertoncini, J., & Mehler, J. (1991). How do four-day-old infants categorize multisyllabic utterances? Developmental Psychology, 29, 711-721.
3. Church, R. M. & Broadbent, H. A. (1990). Alternative representations of time, number, and rate. Cognition, 37, 55-81.
4. Clearfield, M. W., & Mix, K. S. (1999). Number versus contour length in infants' discrimination of small visual sets. Psychological Science, 10, 408-411.
5. Cooper, R. G. (1984). Early number development: Discovering number space with addition and subtraction. In C. Sophian (Ed.), Origins of cognitive skills, (pp. 157-192). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
6. Dehaene, S. (1997). The number sense. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.
7. Dehaene, S., & Changeux, J. P. (1993). Development of elementary numerical abilities: A neuronal model. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5:4, 390-407.
8. Feigenson, L. & Carey, S., & Hauser, M. (2000). Spontaneous ordinal judgments by preverbal infants. Poster presented at the 12th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, UK.
9. Gallistel, C. R. (1990). The organization of learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
10. Gallistel, C. R., & Gelman, R. (1992). Preverbal and verbal counting and computation. Cognition, 44, 43-74.
11. Hauser, M. D., Carey, S., & Hauser, L. B. (2000). Spontaneous number representation in semi-free-ranging rhesus monkeys. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences.
12. Kahneman, D., & Treisman, A. (1984). Changing views of attention and automaticity. In R. Parasuraman & D. Davies (Eds.), Varieties of Attention. New York: Academic Press.
13. Koechlin, E., Dehaene, S., & Mehler, J. (1998). Numerical transformations in five-month-old human infants. Mathematical Cognition, 3, 89-104.
14. Leslie, A., Xu, F., Tremoulet, P., & Scholl, B. (1998). Indexing and the object concept: Developing 'what' and 'where' systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 10-18.
15. Meek, W. H., & Church, R. M. (1983). A mode control model of counting and timing processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 9, 320-334.
16. Piaget, J. (1952). The child's conception of number. New York: Norton.
17. Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Storm, R. W. (1988). Tracking multiple independent targets: Evidence for a parallel tracking mechanism. Spatial Vision, 3, 179-197.
18. Scholl, B. J., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1999). Tracking multiple objects through occlusion: Clues to visual objecthood. Cognitive Psychology, 38, 259-290.
19. Simon, T. J. (1997). Reconceptualizing the origins of number knowledge: A "non-numerical account." Cognitive Development, 12, 349-372.
20. Simon, T. J., Hespos, S. J., & Rochat, P. (1995). Do infants understand simple arithmetic? A replication of Wynn (1992). Cognitive Development, 10, 253-269.
21. Spelke, E. S., Breinlinger, K., Macomber, J., & Jacobson, K. (1992). Origins of knowledge. Psychological Review, 99, 4, 605-632.
22. Starkey, P., & Cooper, R. G. (1980). Perception of numbers by human infants. Science, 210, 1033-1035.
23. Starkey, P., Spelke, E. S., & Gelman, R. (1990). Numerical abstraction by human infants. Cognition, 36, 97-128.
24. Strauss, M. S., & Curtis, L. E. (1981). Infant perception of numerosity. Developmental Psychology, 52, 1146-1152.
25. Uller, C. (1995). Unpublished raw data.
26. Uller, C., Carey, S., Huntley-Fenner, G., & Klatt (1999). What representations might underlie infant numerical knowledge. Cognitive Development, 14, 1-36.
27. Van Loosbroek, E., & Smitsman, A. W. (1990). Visual perception of numerosity in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 26, 916-922.
28. Whalen, J., Gallistel, C. R., & Gelman, R. (1999). Nonverbal counting in humans: The psychophysics of number representation. Psychological Science, 10(2), 130-137.
29. Wynn, K. (1992). Addition and subtraction by human infants. Nature, 358, 749-750.
30. Wynn, K. (1995). Origins of numerical knowledge. Mathematical Cognition, 3, 35-60.
31. Wynn, K. (1996). Infants' individuation and enumeration of actions. Psychological Science, 7, 164-169.
32. Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (1999). Individuation without objects: Implications for developmental psychology. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.
33. Xu, F. (2000). Numerical competence in infancy: Two systems of representation. Paper presented at the 12th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, UK.
34. Xu, F., & Spelke, E. S. (2000). Large number discrimination in 6-month old infants. Cognition, 74, B1-B11.