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Do infants count like scientists?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2009

Andreas Wiefel ,
Sabina Pauen  and
Michael Dueck
Andreas Wiefel
Affiliation:
Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, D-13353 Berlin, Germany. andreas.wiefel@charite.dehttp://kjp.charite.de/patienten/baby_und_kleinkindsprechstunde/
Sabina Pauen
Affiliation:
Department for Developmental Psychology, University of Heidelberg, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany. sabina@pauen.nethttp://www.sabina-pauen.de
Michael Dueck
Affiliation:
Department for Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care, University of Cologne, D-50937 Köln, Germany. michael.dueck@uk-koeln.dehttp://cms.uk-koeln.de/anaesthesiologie/content/index_ger.html
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Abstract

We discuss methodological problems and present our own empirical data on calculation tasks in toddlers. We propose to develop enriching theoretical models concerning quantity representations, based on empirical findings from developmental psychology. A revitalization of the debate is worthy, because it is reminiscent of the philosophical dispute on universal entities in scholasticism and Plato's theory of ideal numbers.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 3-4 , August 2009 , pp. 355 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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