infant number - responses

[Annette Karmiloff-Smith]

I put out the following request on CHILDES/DEV-EUROPE and got the following
replies from Alan Slater, Bruce Hood and Maria Nunes, for which many thanks.

>I know of all the work on infant number in 3 month olds upwards.
>But I do not know of any work on neonates' processing of numerosity
>>discriminations, etc. although I heard it referred to on the radio.
>Can someone point me to references please on newborns.
>Many thanks
>Annette

It seems only one study has focused on newborns with respect to visually
presented stimuli, that it was difficult to replicate except with dot
displays, and that one has of course to watch density differences:

>Antell, S., & Keating, D. (1983).  Perception of numerical invariance in
>neonates.  Child Development, vol 54, pp 695-702.
>
and one study on newsborns with language-relevant auditory stimuli:

>Bijeljac-Babic, R., Bertoncini, J., & Mehler, J. (1991), How do
>four-day-old infants categorize multisyllabic utterances?
>Developmental Psychology, 29, 711-721.

Other refs. were re older infants which we all probably know, plus one
piece of work I didn't know about:

>Lynne Tan, a previous student of Peter
>Bryant who did her PhD on infant's understanding of numerosity  at about
>one year ago. Her e-mail is: lynne_tan at nus.edu.sg.
>


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