One, two, three, four, nothing more: An investigation of the conceptual sources of the verbal counting principles

Cognition

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 395-438

  Le Corre, Mathieu ^a   Carey, Susan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counting; Number development; Numerical cognition

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANCY; LEARNING; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AWARENESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34548447632     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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