Both drawing and language are fundamental and unique to humans as a species. Just as
language is a representational system that uses systematic sounds (or manual/bodily signs) …

In Children and Pictures, Richard P. Jolley critiques both the historical and contemporary
studies conducted in the field of children's making and understanding of pictures. Some …

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

The aim of this paper is to develop a new understanding of children's drawings and to
provide ideas for future research in early childhood. Starting from classic theories on child …

Although the scribbling stage of drawing has been historically regarded as meaningless and
transitional, a sort of prelude to the “actual” drawing phase of childhood, recent studies have …

This study investigated the relationship between emotion comprehension, grammar
comprehension, and working memory capacity in children between 5 and 11 years (n= 130) …

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 …

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 …

As early childhood educators of young children, we recognize that children draw what they
know from cultural transmissions, moving through many developmental transitions with …