“…The human figure task has been used in the assessment of nonverbal mental age in children by counting the number of specific details (Goodenough, 1926;Goodenough & Harris, 1950;Harris, 1963;Naglieri, 1988). The test is still widely in use internationally (e.g., Kifune & Tachibana, 1991;Goldman & Gilbert, 1992;Naglieri & Pfeiffer, 1992;Cannoni, 1993;Chappell & Steitz, 1993;Taborda de Velasco, 1993;Bombi, 1995;Cox & Cotgreave, 1996;Martlew & Connolly, 1996;Jing, Yuan, & Liu, 1999;Cox & Catte, 2000;Vedder, van de Vijfeijken, & Kook, 2000;La Voy, Pederson, Reitz, Brauch, Luxenberg, & Nofsinger, 2001;Dandii, 2002;Bacchini, Amodeo, Vajro, & Licenziati, 2003;Loxton, Mostert, & Moffatt, 2006). The drawing of the human figure, however, is also used to investigate domainspecific cognitive development (Cox, 1993); an example is Lange-Küttner, Kerzmann, and Heckhausen's study (2002) of part-whole integration of body parts into a visual silhouette, in which there were significant sex differences, with boys being better in drawing the outer edge of the silhouette with a natural contour, while girls were better in individual shape modification, that is, drawing the parts of a body with a natural contour.…”