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Peer reviewedWynn, Karen – Mathematical Cognition, 1995
Presents evidence that human infants possess a mechanism for determining and representing small numbers of entities and procedures for operating on these representations to extract numerical relationships between them. Presents a model for this mechanism and discusses its relation to later numerical knowledge. Contains 42 references. (MKR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Infants, Mathematics Education
