Learning to count begins in infancy: Evidence from 18 month olds' visual preferences

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1720, 2011, Pages 2979-2984

  Slaughter, Virginia ^a   Itakura, Shoji ^b   Kutsuki, Aya ^b   Siegal, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counting; Infancy; One to one correspondence; Preferential looking

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH; LEARNING; PARADIGM SHIFT; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; VIDEOGRAPHY; VISION; VISUAL CUE;

EID: 80052258119     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2602     Document Type: Article

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