Habitual Size and Projective Size: The Logic of Spatial Systems in Children's Drawings

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 913-927

  Lange Kuttner C ^a,b  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

conceptual development; developmental transitions; pictorial space; size modification in axes systems; spatial constraints and possibilities

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ART; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOGIC; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ART; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 67651101116     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016133     Document Type: Article

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