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Opfer, John E.; Siegler, Robert S.; Young, Christopher J. – Developmental Science, 2011
Barth and Paladino (2011) argue that changes in numerical representations are better modeled by a power function whose exponent gradually rises to 1 than as a shift from a logarithmic to a linear representation of numerical magnitude. However, the fit of the power function to number line estimation data may simply stem from fitting noise generated…
Descriptors: Numbers, Computation, Models, Prediction
Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Kinzler, Katherine D. – Developmental Science, 2007
Human cognition is founded, in part, on four systems for representing objects, actions, number, and space. It may be based, as well, on a fifth system for representing social partners. Each system has deep roots in human phylogeny and ontogeny, and it guides and shapes the mental lives of adults. Converging research on human infants, non-human…
Descriptors: Infants, Knowledge Level, Cognitive Development, Animals