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 …

In this article I present some ideas, based on qualitative research into young children's
drawing, related to the developing discourse on young children's thinking and meaning …

The Art of Childhood and Adolescence is composed of completely new research on the
development of representational thinking from infancy through to adolescence. It makes an …

This book traces the development of artistic talent from early childhood to adolescence
through a series of studies that look comparatively at development in talented and less …

The present studies analysed drawing as a system rather than a unitary ability. The aim was
to investigate whether and which language factors influence drawing performance and …

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 …

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 …

We investigated the emergence of visually realistic contour in the human figure drawing.
Young children initially draw geometric and regular parts, which they combine in an additive …

The aim of this study is to investigate cross‐national differences in children's geographical
knowledge of Europe. The analyses are based on 300 maps of Europe drawn by 8‐and 10 …

The current study analyzed figure size modification in different types of spatial context (C.
Lange-Küttner, 1997, 2004) for sequence and practice effects. Children of 7, 9, and 11 years …