Young children’s perception of diagrammatic representations
- Frick, Andrea University of Fribourg
- Newcombe, Nora S. Temple University
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2015
Published in:
- Spatial Cognition & Computation. - Taylor & Francis. - 2015, vol. 15, no. 4, p. 227-245
Cognitive development
Diagram
Line drawing
Pictorial depth
Spatial cognition
Three-dimensional
Two-dimensional representation
English
Diagrams and pictorial representations are common in children's lives and require abstraction away from visual perception. In three experiments, we investigated 4- to 8- year-olds’ comprehension of such representations. In Experiment 1 (N = 80), children were shown photographs of geometric objects and asked to choose the corresponding line drawing from among sets of four, or vice versa. Results showed considerable developmental progression, especially around age 6. Experiment 2 (N = 16) ruled out that 4-year-olds’ difficulties were due to problems with the visual matching task itself. Experiment 3 (N = 32) showed comparable performance for matching diagrams to 3D objects rather than to photographs. Findings suggest increasing understanding of diagrammatic representations around the time of school entry.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de Psychologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Psychology
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 304978
- DOI 10.1080/13875868.2015.1046988
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/305912
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