Susan Carey

Susan Carey
2005

concepts of reference point and polarity, which presuppose concepts of dimension of comparison and zero point. These concepts can be probed nonlinguistically. For example, animals can be taught to… (More)

One, two, three, four, nothing more: An investigation of the conceptual sources of the verbal counting principles

Since the publication of [Gelman, R., & Gallistel, C. R. (1978). The child's understanding of number. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.] seminal work on the development of verbal counting as a… (More)

Spontaneous number representation in semi-free-ranging rhesus monkeys.

Marc D. Hauser, Susan Carey, Lorenz Hauser
Proceedings. Biological sciences
2000

Previous research has shown that animals possess considerable numerical abilities. However, this work was based on experiments involving extensive training, a small number of captive subjects and… (More)

Consequences of "minimal" group affiliations in children.

Yarrow Dunham, Andrew Scott Baron, Susan Carey
Child development
2011

Three experiments (total N=140) tested the hypothesis that 5-year-old children's membership in randomly assigned "minimal" groups would be sufficient to induce intergroup bias. Children were randomly… (More)

How counting represents number: What children must learn and when they learn it

This study compared 2- to 4-year-olds who understand how counting works (cardinal-principle-knowers) to those who do not (subset-knowers), in order to better characterize the knowledge itself. New… (More)

On the limits of infants' quantification of small object arrays

Lisa Feigenson, Susan Carey
Cognition
2005

Recent work suggests that infants rely on mechanisms of object-based attention and short-term memory to represent small numbers of objects. Such work shows that infants discriminate arrays containing… (More)

From piecemeal to configurational representation of faces.

Unlike older children and adults, children of less than about 10 years of age remember photographs of faces presented upside down almost as well as those shown upright and are easily fooled by simple… (More)

Understanding other minds: linking developmental psychology and functional neuroimaging.

Rebecca Saxe, Susan Carey, Nancy Kanwisher
Annual review of psychology
2004

Evidence from developmental psychology suggests that understanding other minds constitutes a special domain of cognition with at least two components: an early-developing system for reasoning about… (More)

Identification and ratings of caricatures: Implications for mental representations of faces

Gillian Rhodes, Susan Brennan, Susan Carey
Cognitive Psychology
1987

S. Brennan (1985, Leonardo, 18, 170-178) has developed a computer-implemented caricature generator based on a holistic theory of caricature. A face is represented by 37 lines, based on a fixed set of… (More)

The representations underlying infants' choice of more: object files versus analog magnitudes.

Lisa Feigenson, Susan Carey, Marc Hauser
Psychological science
2002

A new choice task was used to explore infants' spontaneous representations of more and less. Ten- and 12-month-old infants saw crackers placed sequentially into two containers, then were allowed to… (More)

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