Infants' auditory enumeration: Evidence for analog magnitudes in the small number range

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 302-316

  vanMarle, Kristy ^a,b   Wynn, Karen ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog magnitudes; Auditory; Enumeration; Infant cognition; Small numbers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 67349101256     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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