Developmental Changes in Drawing Production Under Different Memory Demands in a U.S. and Chinese Sample.
Children's drawings of common object categories become dramatically more recognizable across childhood. What are the major factors that drive developmental changes in children's drawings? To what degree are children's drawings a product of their changing internal category representations versus limi...
| Publicado en: | Developmental Psychology Vol. 59; no. 10; pp. 1784 - 1794 |
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American Psychological Association
October2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=172416679&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 172416679 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00121649 DPS jtl: Developmental Psychology issn: 00121649 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: October2023 vid: 59 iid: 10 pid: 34 pub: American Psychological Association artinfo: ui: 172416679 10.1037/dev0001600 ppf: 1784 ppct: 10 formats: tig: atl: Developmental Changes in Drawing Production Under Different Memory Demands in a U.S. and Chinese Sample. aug: au: Long, Bria Wang, Ying Christie, Stella Frank, Michael C. Fan, Judith E. affil: Department of Psychology, Stanford University Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego su: California China United States Child development Task performance Children Cats Drawing Short-term memory Verbal behavior Photography Airplanes Descriptive statistics Prompts (Psychology) sug: subj: Child development Task performance Children California China United States Aircraft Manufacturing Aerospace product and parts manufacturing All Other Animal Production Cats Drawing Short-term memory Verbal behavior Photography Airplanes Descriptive statistics Prompts (Psychology) keyword: children's drawings object recognition tracing visual production visuomotor control children's drawings object recognition tracing visual production visuomotor control ab: Children's drawings of common object categories become dramatically more recognizable across childhood. What are the major factors that drive developmental changes in children's drawings? To what degree are children's drawings a product of their changing internal category representations versus limited by their visuomotor abilities or their ability to recall the relevant visual information? To explore these questions, we examined the degree to which developmental changes in drawing recognizability vary across different drawing tasks that vary in memory demands (i.e., drawing from verbal vs. picture cues) and with children's shape-tracing abilities across two geographical locations (San Jose, United States, and Beijing, China). We collected digital shape tracings and drawings of common object categories (e.g., cat, airplane) from 4- to 9-year-olds (N = 253). The developmental trajectory of drawing recognizability was remarkably similar when children were asked to draw from pictures versus verbal cues and across these two geographical locations. In addition, our Beijing sample produced more recognizable drawings but showed similar tracing abilities to children from San Jose. Overall, this work suggests that the developmental trajectory of children's drawings is remarkably consistent and not easily explainable by changes in visuomotor control or working memory; instead, changes in children's drawings over development may at least partly reflect changes in the internal representations of object categories. Public Significance Statement: The present study examined developmental changes in children's drawings of common object categories from 4 to 9 years of age. The findings suggest relative consistency in the developmental trajectory of drawing recognizability across two different sites (San Jose, United States, and Beijing, China) and two different drawing tasks (verbal vs. picture cues). The digital drawings and stroke-by-stroke records are made available as a resource for future work. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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