TY - JOUR PY - 1989// TI - The young child's representation of depth in drawing: process and product JO - Journal of experimental child psychology A1 - Ingram, N. A1 - Butterworth, G. SP - 356 EP - 369 VL - 47 IS - 3 N2 - Two experiments are reported from a series of studies in which plain blocks of various sizes were presented in various spatial orientations to children aged between 3 and 8 years in an attempt to establish how they represent three-dimensional spatial relations pictorially. The major results were that young children represent depth in the array vertically in the picture plane. Two important findings were that even from an early age drawings contain "view-centered" information and that children differentiate between the relative positions of objects in the array by the temporal order of their drawing. These results show the importance of studying the drawing process as well as its product.

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