Are young children's drawings canonically biased?

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-64

  Picard, Delphine ^a   Durand, Karine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VALÉRY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Canonical representation; Children's drawings

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VISION;

ART; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 10944255513     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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