title: Understanding aspects of pictures: the development of scene schemata in young children.
abstract: The focus of this research was on preschool children's understanding of information depicted in pictures. Children were presented tasks assessing their understanding of object likelihoods, object positions, object sizes, and depth in scenes. The results indicated that knowledge about object likelihoods and positions show parallel patterns of development and share significant common variation, suggesting that they are early-developing aspects of scene schemata. Knowledge about size and depth seem to develop more slowly and were related to knowledge about object likelihoods only for older preschool children. Size and depth do not appear to form part of the scene schemata of young children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Saarnio
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003210:Concept Formation; D003867:Depth Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012858:Size Perception