Origins of Number Sense: Large-number discrimination in Human Infants

Psychological Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 396-401

  Lipton, Jennifer S ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 0038685868     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.01453     Document Type: Article

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