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14Symbolic Understanding of Pictures and Written Words Share a Common SourceJournal of Cognition and Culture 14 (3-4): 187-198. 2014.Here we examine the hypothesis that symbolic understanding across domains is mediated by a fundamental ‘symbolizing’ ability in young children. We tested 30 children aged 2–4 years on symbolic tasks assessing iconic and non-iconic word-referent and picture-referent understanding and administered standardised tests of symbolic play and receptive language. Children showed understanding of the symbol-referent relation earlier for pictures than written words, and performance within domains was corre…Read more
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37Educating the design stance: Issues of coherence and transgression. Commentary on Bullot & ReberBehavioral and Brain Sciences. forthcoming.
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28Do iPads promote symbolic understanding and word learning in children with autism?Frontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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82Educating the design stance: Issues of coherence and transgressionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (2). 2013.Bullot & Reber (B&R) put forth a design stance to fuse psychological and art historical accounts of visual thinking into a single theory. We argue that this aspect of their proposal needs further fine-tuning. Issues of transgression and coherence are necessary to provide stability to the design stance. We advocate looking to Art Education for such fundamentals of picture understanding
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37Intentions vs. resemblance: Understanding pictures in typical development and autismCognition 131 (1): 44-59. 2014.
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36Young children show representational flexibility when interpreting drawingsCognition 147 (C): 21-28. 2016.
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