Article: The role of strategic visual attention in children's drawing development.
Journal of experimental child psychology
1998 Volume 68, Issue 2, Page(s) 87–107
Abstract: The many variables that affect the production of visually realistic drawings in children (such as instructions and contrasting models), have been widely documented in the research literature. The experiments reported here assess one variable that has ... ...
Abstract | The many variables that affect the production of visually realistic drawings in children (such as instructions and contrasting models), have been widely documented in the research literature. The experiments reported here assess one variable that has been largely ignored, namely the attention that the child pays towards the drawing model. First, it was shown that the progression from intellectual to visual realism occurred between six and eight years of age, and was accompanied by a spontaneous increase in attention towards the drawing models. A second experiment showed that the drawing performance of the 6-year-olds was enhanced by contrasting tasks and explicit instructions. At all ages, explicit instructions increased attention towards the model, and the use of an efficient attentional strategy was associated with visually realistic drawings. These studies provide further evidence that intellectual and visual realism are not distinct developmental stages, but may instead reflect the use of different attentional strategies by children. |
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MeSH term(s) | Age Factors ; Attention/physiology ; Child ; Child Development/physiology ; Child, Preschool ; Cognition/physiology ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Time Factors ; Visual Perception/physiology |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 1998-02 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Comparative Study ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
ZDB-ID | 218137-x |
ISSN | 1096-0457 ; 0022-0965 |
ISSN (online) | 1096-0457 |
ISSN | 0022-0965 |
DOI | 10.1006/jecp.1997.2419 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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