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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Parallels in Preschoolers' and Adults' Judgments about Ownership Rights and Bodily Rights
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Van de Vondervoort, Julia W.; Friedman, Ori – Cognitive Science, 2015
Understanding ownership rights is necessary for socially appropriate behavior. We provide evidence that preschoolers' and adults' judgments of ownership rights are related to their judgments of bodily rights. Four-year-olds (n = 70) and adults (n = 89) evaluated the acceptability of harmless actions targeting owned property and body…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Ownership, Adult Basic Education, Human Body
Quantity Recognition among Speakers of an Anumeric Language
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Everett, Caleb; Madora, Keren – Cognitive Science, 2012
Recent research has suggested that the Piraha, an Amazonian tribe with a number-less language, are able to match quantities greater than 3 if the matching task does not require recall or spatial transposition. This finding contravenes previous work among the Piraha. In this study, we re-tested the Pirahas' performance in the crucial one-to-one…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Number Concepts, Number Systems, Numeracy