Imprinted numbers: newborn chicks' sensitivity to number vs. continuous extent of objects they have been reared with

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 790-797

  Rugani, Rosa ^a   Regolin, Lucia ^b   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NEWBORN; VISION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHICKENS; IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY); MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955732790     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00936.x     Document Type: Article

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