The relative salience of discrete and continuous quantity in young infants

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 453-463

  Cordes, Sara ^a   Brannon, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMAN; INFANT; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMANS; INFANT; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS;

EID: 63749119116     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00781.x     Document Type: Article

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