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Human infants compute the successor function

2025-12-08

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>The successor function S(n) = n + 1, which incrementally generates the next integer in a sequence, formally defines the ordinal structure of numbers. We investigated whether a successor function-like capacity is present in infancy. We first showed ninety-nine 12- to 18-month-old infants a non-symbolic successor operation (S(0) = 1), and then used a violation-of-expectation method to exa...

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Literature Corpus work: affb82f1-2145-5e6d-b875-88229d875ced
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8253462/v1

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