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Direct linkWood, Justin N.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Cognition, 2005
Developmental research suggests that some of the mechanisms that underlie numerical cognition are present and functional in human infancy. To investigate these mechanisms and their developmental course, psychologists have turned to behavioral and electrophysiological methods using briefly presented displays. These methods, however, depend on the…
Descriptors: Infants, Number Concepts, Numbers, Cognitive Ability
Salomon, Gavriel – 1994
An empirically-based theory is proposed that relates media's most essential modes of presentation--their symbol systems--to modes of cognitive representation and to the acquisition of knowledge. This book draws upon scholarship in such areas as the study of symbol systems, cognition, cognitive development, psycholinguistics, and mass…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, Epistemology
