What is it about?
Explores how recent insights in the way neural systems or organized may influence children's' drawing procedures. Also draws attention to some discrepancies between child psychologists and neuroscientists in the use of key terms, which has given rise to some confusion in debates on the graphic representational skills of children..
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Why is it important?
Recent research from neuroscience needed to be applied to the way children learn to draw in particular ways in order to better understand drawing strategies.
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The need for an interdisciplinary perspective on children's drawing strategies that applies neuroscientific research to the field.
Derek Hodgson
University of York
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This page is a summary of: Canonical perspective and typical features in children's drawings: A neuroscientific appraisal, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, November 2002, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1348/026151002760390864.
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