Ten-month-old infants' reaching choices for "more": The relationship between inter-stimulus distance and number

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Uller, Claudia ^a   Urquhart, Callum ^b   Lewis, Jennifer ^c   Berntsen, Monica ^c  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density assessment; Infancy; Number; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878800340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00084     Document Type: Article

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