Increasing magnitude counts more: Asymmetrical processing of ordinality in 4-month-old infants

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 183-193

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Continuous dimensions; Infants; Magnitude representation; Ordinal relations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COLOR; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL; MALE; ORDINALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84862673355     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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