"Even before babies learn to talk they have a bit of a grasp of math, according to new research concluding that infants may have an abstract sense of numerical concepts.
The research, published in this week's edition of 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,' said seven-month-old babies demonstrated an ability to match the number of voices they heard to the number of faces they expected to see.
The study of 20 infants by researchers at Duke University was similar to a previous experiment done to demonstrate that monkeys show numerical perception across senses."
Thursday, February 16, 2006
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