The difficulties of representing continuous extent in infancy: Using number is just easier

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 476-489

  Cordes, Sara ^a   Brannon, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICS;

COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 41149148730     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01137.x     Document Type: Article

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