Numerosity discrimination in infants: Evidence for two systems of representations

Cognition

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Xu, Fei ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infants; Numerosity discrimination

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; NUMBER THEORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

NUMEROSITY DISCRIMINATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0042669849     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00050-7     Document Type: Article

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