Exact equality and successor function: Two key concepts on the path towards understanding exact numbers

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 491-505

  Izard, Véronique ^a,d   Pica, Pierre ^b   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^a   Dehaene, Stanislas ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSERM CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual change; Culture; Development; Numerical cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049107952     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: 1465394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515080802285354     Document Type: Article

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