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ERIC Number: EJ737543
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 12
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0885-2014
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Evidence of Amodal Representation of Small Numbers across Visuo-Tactile Modalities in 5-Month-Old Infants
Feron, Julie; Gentaz, Edouard; Streri, Arlette
Cognitive Development, v21 n2 p81-92 Apr-Jun 2006
Two experiments investigated 5-month-old infants' amodal sensitivity to numerical correspondences between sets of objects presented in the tactile and visual modes. A classical cross-modal transfer task from touch to vision was adopted. Infants were first tactually familiarized with two or three different objects presented one by one in their right hand. Then, they were presented with visual displays containing two or three objects. Visual displays were presented successively (Experiment 1) or simultaneously (Experiment 2). In both experiments, results showed that infants looked longer at the visual display which contained a different number of objects from the tactile familiarization phase. Taken together, the results revealed that infants can detect numerical correspondences between a sequence of tactile and visual stimulation, and they strengthen the hypothesis of amodal and abstract representation of small numbers of objects (two or three) across sensory modalities in 5-month-old infants.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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