Infants' Metaphysics: The Case of Numerical Identity.

Xu, Fei; Carey, Susan

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Publication Date: 1996

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Infants' Metaphysics: The Case of Numerical Identity.

Xu, Fei; Carey, Susan

Cognitive Psychology, v30 n2 p111-53 Apr 1996

Five experiments using the visual habitation paradigm with 158 infants demonstrated that these 10-month olds did not use property/kind information to establish representations of 2 numerically distinct objects, a finding that provided support for the object-first hypothesis. (SLD)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Infants, Numbers, Visual Measures

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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