Infants use different mechanisms to make small and large number ordinal judgments

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-110

  vanMarle, Kristy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog magnitudes; Infant; Number; Object tracking; Ordinal judgment; Representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VISION;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84870687603     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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