The role of strategic visual attention in children's drawing development
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A study conducted on the relationship between drawing and attention among children has revealed that spontaneous attention on drawing models increases with age. Children who produce more visually realistic drawings are those who tend to pay more attention to the drawing models. It was also shown that the evaluation of attentional behavior in children can reveal the varying attention strategies which are evoked by varying instructions. It is also implied that the effect of age in drawing realism reflects development in the ability to use appropriate attentional strategies which proves that intellectual and visual realism are related developmental stages in drawing.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 1998
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The effect of retrieval clues on visual preferences and memory in infancy: Evidence for a four-phase attention function
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A four-phase model of infant atttention is proposed, indicating that recent memories may be expressed as a visual preference for novelty. Intermediate memories were expressed as a null preference and remote memories as a preference for familiarity. Further experiments showed that increased exposure to the retrieval cue altered the familiarity preference to a novelty preference.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 1997
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