Discrimination of large and small numerosities by human infants

Infancy

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 271-290

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

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATHEMATICS; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 13844314164     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0503_2     Document Type: Article

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