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dc.contributor.authorIzard, Véronique
dc.contributor.authorSann, Coralie
dc.contributor.authorSpelke, Elizabeth S.
dc.contributor.authorStreri, Arlette
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-07T20:31:49Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationIzard, Véronique, Coralie Sann, Elizabeth S. Spelke, and Arlette Streri. 2009. Newborn infants perceive abstract numbers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(25): 10382-10385.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1091-6490en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10139591
dc.description.abstractAlthough infants and animals respond to the approximate number of elements in visual, auditory, and tactile arrays, only human children and adults have been shown to possess abstract numerical representations that apply to entities of all kinds (e.g., 7 samurai, seas, or sins). Do abstract numerical concepts depend on language or culture, or do they form a part of humans' innate, core knowledge? Here we show that newborn infants spontaneously associate stationary, visual-spatial arrays of 4–18 objects with auditory sequences of events on the basis of number. Their performance provides evidence for abstract numerical representations at the start of postnatal experience.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipPsychologyen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherNational Academy of Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.isversionofdoi:10.1073/pnas.0812142106en_US
dash.licenseLAA
dc.subjectdevelopmenten_US
dc.subjectnumerical cognitionen_US
dc.subjectcognitiveen_US
dc.titleNewborn Infants Perceive Abstract Numbersen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscripten_US
dc.relation.journalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesen_US
dash.depositing.authorSpelke, Elizabeth S.
dash.waiver2009-05-26
dc.date.available2013-01-07T20:31:49Z
dc.identifier.doi10.1073/pnas.0812142106*
dash.contributor.affiliatedSpelke, Elizabeth
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-6925-3618


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