6个月大婴儿的大数辨别能力

Large number discrimination in 6-month-old infants.

作者信息

Xu F, Spelke E S

机构信息

125 NI, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02155, USA.

出版信息

Cognition. 2000 Jan 10;74(1):B1-B11. doi: 10.1016/s0010-0277(99)00066-9.

DOI:10.1016/s0010-0277(99)00066-9

PMID:10594312

Abstract

Six-month-old infants discriminate between large sets of objects on the basis of numerosity when other extraneous variables are controlled, provided that the sets to be discriminated differ by a large ratio (8 vs. 16 but not 8 vs. 12). The capacities to represent approximate numerosity found in adult animals and humans evidently develop in human infants prior to language and symbolic counting.

摘要

当其他无关变量得到控制时，6个月大的婴儿能够根据数量对大量物体进行区分，前提是要区分的两组物体数量差异较大（8对16，而不是8对12）。在成年动物和人类身上发现的表征近似数量的能力显然在人类婴儿掌握语言和符号计数之前就已经发展起来了。