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    "pk": 50298,
    "title": "The Role of Compositionality in Children's Creating Representations of Large Exact Numbers: A Case Study of the Number Five",
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    "abstract": "Compositional capacity (i.e., chunking four objects as two sets of two) can extend 12- to 14-month-old infants' working memory capacity from three to four1,2,3. Here we ask whether numerical composition supports 3- to 4.5-year-olds' creating representations of large exact numbers such as five. In a non-verbal object-tracking task (See Fig1a), subset-knowers and most young CP-knowers failed to track exactly five objects. In two experimental manipulations, we provided children with spatiotemporal, linguistic, and/or color chunking cues. If tracking sets of five as a composition of two and three is within children's compositional capacities, they should perform better than children from baseline. We found no evidence that 3- to 4.5-year-olds can represent exactly five by composing representations of two and three (Exp.1: F(4, 133) = 5.69, β = -0.03, p = .509; Exp.2: F(4, 143) = 4.94, β = -0.03, p = .587).",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Cognitive development; Representation"
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        {
            "first_name": "Yiqiao",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wang",
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            "institution": "Harvard Univeristy",
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        {
            "first_name": "Susan",
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            "last_name": "Carey",
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            "institution": "Harvard University",
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        {
            "first_name": "Elizabeth",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Spelke",
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            "institution": "Harvard University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T11:00:00-07:00",
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