Seven-month-olds detect ordinal numerical relationships within temporal sequences

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 359-367

  Picozzi, Marta ^a   de Hevia, Maria Dolores ^b   Girelli, Luisa ^a   Macchi Cassia, Viola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Featural information; Infancy; Multiple cue integration; Number processing; Ordinality; Temporal sequences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES;

EID: 77954759426     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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