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ERIC Number: EJ613567
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0965
What Do Infants Know about Continuous Quantity?
Gao, Fan; Levine, Susan C.; Huttenlocher, Janellen
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v77 n1 p20-29 Sep 2000
Two experiments investigated infants' sensitivity to amount of continuous quantity and to changes in amount of continuous quantity. Found that 6-month-olds looked significantly longer at a novel quantity than at the familiar quantity. Nine-month-olds looked significantly longer at an impossible event than at a possible event. Findings question claims that infants' quantitative mechanism is exclusive to number. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Computation, Discrimination Learning, Expectation, Habituation, Infant Behavior, Infants, Knowledge Level, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics, Number Concepts
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Mathematical Thinking