title: Seven-month-olds detect ordinal numerical relationships within temporal sequences.
abstract: Previous evidence has shown that 11-month-olds represent ordinal relations between purely numerical values, whereas younger infants require a confluence of numerical and non-numerical cues. In this study, we show that when multiple featural cues (i.e., color and shape) are provided, 7-month-olds detect reversals in the ordinal direction of numerical sequences relying solely on number when non-numerical quantitative cues are controlled. These results provide evidence for the influence of featural information and multiple cue integration on infants' proneness to detect ordinal numerical information.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Picozzi
authors.forename: Maria Dolores
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: de Hevia
authors.forename: Luisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Girelli
authors.forename: Viola
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Macchi Cassia
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D003210:Concept Formation / Q000502:physiology; D003463:Cues; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology*