This book places child art within the broader context of children's creative intelligence and
intrinsic motivation to invent a pictorial world. It examines the development of drawing and …

This lavishly illustrated book gives a comprehensive and scholarly account of children's
understanding and appreciation of art and their developing ability to produce their own …

Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, Cognitive Development
provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian …

Participation in the arts is central to human behavior. The earliest humans made art and
traces of artistic ability can be seen in nonhuman animals. The arts are critical to the …

Abstract Language and pictures are two major representational systems, but the relation
between them in early childhood is under-investigated. This study investigated the …

The current study tested gender differences in the developmental transition from drawing
cubes in two‐versus three dimensions (3D), and investigated the underlying spatial abilities …

Little is known about the relation between cognitive processes and imagination and whether
this relation differs between neurotypically developing children and children with autism. To …

In the present study, intraindividual development of the ability to modify the size of the
human figure drawing was investigated. In a longitudinal data set with repeated …

Representing the spatial appearance of objects and scenes in drawings is a difficult task for
young children in particular. In the present study, the relationship between spatial drawing …

This study reconsiders a series of drawing tasks (Goodnow, 1978) in which children have to
modify their stereotypical drawing of the human figure to represent a person in movement …