This paper presents a new methodology for
examining the phenomenon of subitizing. Subjects
were presented with a standard numerosity-detection
task but for a range of presentation times to allow
Task-Accuracy Functions to be computed for
individual subjects. The data appear to show a
continuous change in processing for numerosities
from 2 to 5 when the data are aggregated across
subjects. At the level of individual subjects, there
appear to be qualitative shifts in enumeration
processing after 3 or 4 objects. The approach used in
Uiis experiment m a y be used to test the claim that
subitizing is a distinct enumeration process that can
be used for small numbers of objects.