Artist's referential intention in early understanding of drawings as symbols

In order to examine the influence of artist’s referential intention on early understanding of drawings, two studies were conducted using a matching task. Study 1 explored whether 24-month-old children’s understanding of drawings can be facilitated when an adult draws an object while looking at it ca...

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Autores: Vivaldi, Romina A., Salsa, Analía Marcela
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Argentina
Recursos:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/10810
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/10810
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Drawing
Comprehension
Intention
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Resumo:In order to examine the influence of artist’s referential intention on early understanding of drawings, two studies were conducted using a matching task. Study 1 explored whether 24-month-old children’s understanding of drawings can be facilitated when an adult draws an object while looking at it carefully (non-linguistic cues) and makes her symbolic intention more explicit to the children through verbal descriptions about her drawing actions (linguistic cues). Study 2 examines if at 30 months of age children are able to solve the task with pre-drawn drawings, without being told the artist’s intention. The results show that the convergence of non-linguistic and linguistic cues enables children to use drawings as symbols at 24 months; only six months later, children spontaneously relate the drawings and their referents. These results are discussed analysing young children’s comprehension of the relationships between drawing, referent, artist and observer.