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Elizabeth Spelke Quotes

Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5-year-old Boston children. - Elizabeth Spelke

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What's central about numbers for us as adults is that we can apply a number like 7 to a diverse number of things. We can say that there are seven dots but also that a horn honks seven times. Although these are different in their sensory qualities, the numbers are the same. - Elizabeth Spelke

The experiments of the infants and the monkeys, I think, make it extremely likely that these abilities are inborn. - Elizabeth Spelke

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