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...JOHN BARTH...
...research is also the “first good evidence” that children, when presented with arrays of dots during the experiment, think in terms of abstract numbers and not visual cues like the size of the dots, said lead author Hilary Barth, who was at Harvard working on the study and is now an assistant professor at Wesleyan University...
...know that they’re not just saying that this array looks like this much stuff,” Barth said. “They are actually abstracting the number of items present and they are making their computations over numbers rather than over something directly perceptual...
...manipulating the size of the visual items you’re presenting, you can try to trick the kids into using those kind of cues, such as the area of red stuff,” Barth said. “But we didn’t succeed in tricking them. They by default use the number of things...
...Barth added that researchers did not instruct the children to think in terms of numbers—the subjects did so on their...