On the limits of infants' quantification of small object arrays

Cognition

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 295-313

  Feigenson, Lisa ^a   Carey, Susan ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Number; Numerosity; Object files; Plural; Short term memory limits; Singular

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 26844474821     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.09.010     Document Type: Article

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