Visual, tactual, and olfactory representation in young children’s drawings : Intermodal transfer of perceptual information.
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The present study investigated young children’s process of drawing especially focusing on the intermodal representations among touching, smelling, and seeing the concrete object (fruits or vegetables). And children given visuo-spatial imagery instruction were expected to activate visuo-spatial expression than other cross modal perceptual instructions as tactual-spatial or olfactory-spatial instructions. Thirty-six nursery school children aged 4 to 5 participated in this study. Every child was randomly assigned either to “tactual”, “olfactory”, or “visual” -spatial (perceptual) condition within blocks of six children in each age. The cross modal perception - expression (drawing) tasks were composed of 6 kinds of vegetables and fruits. Children in visuo-spatial condition showed higher expected activation of visuo-spatial drawing than other cross modal perceptual instructions as tactual-spatial or olfactory-spatial conditions. A series of results in this experiment were discussed in terms of young children’s development of cross modal representation (perception-expression) and cognitive and language abilities.
Authors: Yutaka, Fujita, 藤田, 豊, フジタ, ユタカ
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7044245407
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