The present review aims to analyze the proposal put forward by researches on mathematical cognition about the initial quantitative abilities in human infants. Also, it analyses how the human infants may construct the concept of natural number upon these initial abilities. From the data presented, the paper discusses whether the idea of number has an innate basis, which is an original nativist's position, or a developmental process. Additionally, it presents data from new studies that point towards a cognitive process in the natural number concept that goes from general to specific domains. However, more studies are needed to support this proposal.
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Barbosa, H. H. (2012). Das Competências Quantitativas Iniciais para o Conceito de Número Natural: Quais as Trilhas Possíveis? Psicologia: Reflexao e Critica, 25(2), 350–358. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-79722012000200017
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