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Cordes, Sara; Brannon, Elizabeth M. – Child Development, 2008
This study investigates the ability of 6-month-old infants to attend to the continuous properties of a set of discrete entities. Infants were habituated to dot arrays that were constant in cumulative surface area yet varied in number for small (less than 4) or large (greater than 3) sets. Results revealed that infants detected a 4-fold (but not…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Cognitive Ability
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Libertus, Melissa E.; Pruitt, Laura B.; Woldorff, Marty G.; Brannon, Elizabeth M. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009
Behavioral studies show that infants are capable of discriminating the number of objects or events in their environment, while also suggesting that number discrimination in infancy may be ratio-dependent. However, due to limitations of the dependent measures used with infant behavioral studies, the evidence for ratio dependence falls short of the…
Descriptors: Infants, Discrimination Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes