Numerical intuitions in infancy: Give credit where credit is due.

Behav Brain Sci

Department of Psychology, Boston College,Chestnut Hill,MA

Published: January 2017

Leibovich et al. overlook numerous human infant studies pointing to an early emerging number sense. These studies have carefully manipulated continuous magnitudes in the context of a numerical task revealing that infants can discriminate number when extent is controlled, that infants fail to track extent cues with precision, and that infants find changes in extent less salient than numerical changes.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16002272DOI Listing

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