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Hysteresis-induced Changes in Infants Approximate Number Precision

Jinjing&(Jenny)&Wang*,&Melissa&Libertus**,&Lisa&Feigenson*&
*Johns&Hopkins&University&**&University&of&Pittsburgh
Background
100

Easy%First

Can Hysteresis influence infants


approximate number precision?

Hard%First

Training Trials

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Hysteresis enhanced infants


approximate number precision.

80

Test Trials Performance (Ratio = 1.5)

70
60

Ratio = 6.0

50
40

1.5

2.5

65

%Looking to Changing

Percent Correct

90

30

3.0

2.0

Hysteresis: children started from


easy trials performed better than
children that started from hard
trials in approximate number
discrimination.
Changing
onset

1.7

0 ms

Hard%First

Easy%First
offset

500 ms

next
frame

800 ms

Test Trials

Ratio = 1.5

Infants can reliably tell apart a 2.0


ratio (8 vs. 16), but not a 1.5 ratio
(12 vs. 18) at 6 months of age.

2 trials per ratio;


larger or smaller quantity change is counterbalanced across subjects;
side of change, cumulative area, density, and individual item size are
controlled within each subject.

n.s.

60
55
50
45

chance

No.Training
Libertus &
Brannon,
2010

1.3

Constant

n.s.

Easy%First

Hard%First

N = 32 Mean Age = 6m16d


* p = .03

6-month-old infants can successfully


discriminate a 1.5 ratio numerical
change after experiencing an Easy-First
training sequence, but not after an
Hard-First training sequence.
Preverbal infants, who are too young to
experience metacognitive effects such as
self confidence, are influenced by
hysteresis. They show finer numerical
discrimination precision when starting
from the easiest trials.

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