Newborn infants perceive abstract numbers
Newborn infants perceive abstract numbers
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.0812142106
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发表时间：
2009-06-23
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Streri, Arlette
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作者：
Izard, Veronique;Sann, Coralie;Streri, Arlette
虽然婴儿和动物对视觉、听觉和触觉阵列中的近似数量的元素做出反应，但只有人类儿童和成人才被证明拥有适用于所有类型实体的抽象数字表示（例如，数字表示）。例如，在一个实施例中，7武士，海，或罪）。抽象的数字概念是否依赖于语言或文化，或者它们是否构成了人类固有的核心知识的一部分？在这里，我们表明，新生儿自发地将4-18个物体的静态视觉空间阵列与基于数字的听觉事件序列相关联。他们的表现为出生后经验开始时的抽象数字表征提供了证据。
Although infants and animals respond to the approximate number of elements in visual, auditory, and tactile arrays, only human children and adults have been shown to possess abstract numerical representations that apply to entities of all kinds (e. g., 7 samurai, seas, or sins). Do abstract numerical concepts depend on language or culture, or do they form a part of humans' innate, core knowledge? Here we show that newborn infants spontaneously associate stationary, visual-spatial arrays of 4-18 objects with auditory sequences of events on the basis of number. Their performance provides evidence for abstract numerical representations at the start of postnatal experience.