Babies grasp number, space and time concepts
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 14:20
in Psychology & Sociology
Even before they learn to speak, babies organize information about numbers, space and time in more complex ways than previously realized. "We've shown that 9-month-olds are sensitive to 'more than' or 'less than' relations across the number, size and duration of objects. What's really remarkable is they only need experience with one of these quantitative concepts to guess what the other quantities should look like," says a psychologist.