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Even before they learn to speak, babies are organizing information about time, numbers, and space in complex ways, a new study finds.

“We’ve shown that 9-month-olds are sensitive to ‘more than’ or ‘less than’ relations across the number, size, and duration of objects, says Stella Lourenco, assistant professor of psychology at Emory University. “And what’s really remarkable is they only need experience with one of these quantitative concepts in order to guess what the other quantities should look like.”

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