Artist's referential intention in early understanding of drawings as symbols/La intencionalidad referencial del dibujante: su papel en la comprensión temprana de dibujos como símbolos

VIVALDI, ROMINA A.; SALSA, ANALÍA M.

Estudios de Psicología

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2014 vol. 35 p. 298 - 318

0210-9395

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 relations between drawing, referent, artist and observer (ARTÍCULO PUBLICADO EN FORMA COMPLETA EN INGLÉS Y ESPAÑOL). Publicación indexada en: Social Sciences Citation Index/Social SciSearch, PsycINFO, Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Latindex, ISOC