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Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Kinzler, Katherine D. – Developmental Science, 2007
Human cognition is founded, in part, on four systems for representing objects, actions, number, and space. It may be based, as well, on a fifth system for representing social partners. Each system has deep roots in human phylogeny and ontogeny, and it guides and shapes the mental lives of adults. Converging research on human infants, non-human…
Descriptors: Infants, Knowledge Level, Cognitive Development, Animals
Lipton, Jennifer S.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Cognition, 2006
Although children take over a year to learn the meanings of the first three number words, they eventually master the logic of counting and the meanings of all the words in their count list. Here, we ask whether children's knowledge applies to number words beyond those they have mastered: Does a child who can only count to 20 infer that number…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Numbers, Semantics, Emergent Literacy