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Science 28 November 1980:
Vol. 210. no. 4473, pp. 1033 - 1035
DOI: 10.1126/science.7434014
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Science, Vol 210, Issue 4473, 1033-1035
Copyright © 1980 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Perception of numbers by human infants

P Starkey and RG Cooper Jr

Infants are capable of discriminating, representing, and remembering particular small numbers of items. A perceptual enumeration process called subitizing, present in 2-year-olds, probably underlies this capacity. This finding indicates that some number capacity is present before the onset of verbal counting, and it suggests that verbal counting may have precursors present during infancy.


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