Representational Drawings of Solid Objects by Young Children

Chen, May Jane; Cook, Michael

doi:10.1068/p130377

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“…Copying tasks also provide a solution for how to depict the item. Chen and Cook (1984) compared the performance of typically developing children copying a drawing of a cube with drawing a real cube. Although most children either succeeded or failed both tasks, a number of children passed the copying task only.…”

Section: Drawing Accuracymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Meaning and Dimensionality on Copying Accuracy in Individuals with Autism

Sheppard

Ropar

Mitchell

2006

J Autism Dev Disord

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Weak Central Coherence (Frith, 1989) predicts that, in autism, perceptual processing is relatively unaffected by conceptual analysis. Enhanced Perceptual Functioning (Mottron & Burack, 2001) predicts that the perceptual processing of those with autism is less influenced by conceptual analysis only when higher-level processing is detrimental to task performance. This research tested these theories using a copying task where one conceptual aspect enhances accuracy (meaningfulness) and another hinders it (three-dimensionality). Children and adolescents with and without autism copied meaningful and non-meaningful two-dimensional and three-dimensional line drawings. Drawing accuracy and strategy (global/local) were assessed. Participants with autism were less affected by dimensionality but not meaningfulness, apparently supporting EPF. Effects of dimensionality did not relate to drawing strategy, also contrary to WCC.

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Section: Drawing Accuracymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Meaning and Dimensionality on Copying Accuracy in Individuals with Autism

Sheppard

Ropar

Mitchell

2006

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…Children can shortcut the translation of 3D reality onto twodimensional drawing paper by copying from model drawings (drawing from a drawing; 2D-2D mapping), which provide them with a direct line-to-line matching for their own drawing (Bremner et al, 2000;Chen & Cook, 1984;Wilson & Wilson, 1977). However, that between one half and two thirds of the 7-to 8-year-old children already drew in perspective from 3D models was a truly astonishing finding because it required 3D-2D translation.…”

Section: Perspective As a Propertymentioning

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Do drawing stages really exist? Children’s early mapping of perspective.

Lange-Küttner¹

2014

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Drawing in perspective seems to involve a prolonged development and is not usually present in children's drawings before about age 9 -at least as found in previous research. In the study presented here, we built several three-dimensional spatial models to simulate the developmental stages of children's spatial drawing systems, a simple platform without spatial constraints (Stage 1), and a platform with walls and a sky lid (earth model; Stage 2). Stage 3 (orthogonal) and Stage 4 (perspective) models had explicit boundaries around the spatial field to denote areas and a matched control that controlled for the surround area outside of the boundaries. Four age groups from 7 to 10 years of age drew five non-overlapping figures. All age groups adapted the average figure size to the level of the spatial system (stage) of the models but only when explicit spatial field boundaries were available: The more advanced the spatial system, the smaller the average figure size. It was striking to note that 7-to 8-year-old children drew in perspective as often as 9-to 10-year-olds when the spatial models had a trapezoid field with converging diagonal sides. This early perspective mapping may have occurred because of the agreement between retinal image (appearance) and design (identity) of the perspective models. Hence, it would be more useful to think of the perspective drawing development as a layered rather than as a stagewise process because typically developing young children can access low-level visual information and draw in perspective instead of deploying high-level conceptual knowledge about the geometrical principles of perspective construction.

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“…Drawings were scored by a psychometrist who was blind to the subjects' continence status. Quantitative scoring was based on a slightly modified version of the scoring criteria developed by Chen and Cook 10 . The scale developed by these authors ranks cube drawings on a quantitative scale based on accuracy in representing the linear perspective.…”

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Copy Task Performance and Urinary Incontinence in Alzheimer's Disease

Davidson

Borrie²,

Crilly³

1991

J American Geriatrics Society

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The relationship between behavioral symptoms and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is only poorly understood. The aim of the present study was to examine cognitive correlates of urinary incontinence in AD. Although incontinence is generally accepted as an accompaniment of AD, it was our clinical impression that it correlated poorly with global measures of cognitive impairment. A retrospective pilot study of 17 incontinent demented patients and 17 continent patients, matched for age, sex, and total score on the Folstein Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE), revealed a striking association between an inability to do a copy task and urinary incontinence. A prospective study confirmed this finding in a sample of 45 patients meeting DSMIII-R diagnostic criteria for dementia, probable Alzheimer's disease. The 17 incontinent patients did not differ from the 28 continent patients in age, sex distribution, or total score on the MMSE. However, the incontinent subjects scored significantly lower on a cube copying task. Qualitative analysis revealed that the drawings by incontinent patients showed features comparable with those observed in the drawings by patients with right-sided parietal lesions, in particular, poor representation of perspective and spatial orientation. Further investigation of the relationship between copying performance and incontinence may have implications for understanding the cortical mechanisms of urinary continence. The present results also underscore the limitations of the MMSE as a measure of dementia severity and suggest there are areas of cognitive ability which are inadequately assessed by MMSE but which may be of major important in understanding the loss of functional skills in the dementing patient.

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Representational Drawings of Solid Objects by Young Children

Cited by 26 publications

References 5 publications

The Impact of Meaning and Dimensionality on Copying Accuracy in Individuals with Autism

The Impact of Meaning and Dimensionality on Copying Accuracy in Individuals with Autism

Do drawing stages really exist? Children’s early mapping of perspective.

Copy Task Performance and Urinary Incontinence in Alzheimer's Disease

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