Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Children’s drawings have long been used to assess aspects of general cognitive functioning, intelligence, perceptual motor development, and even socio-emotional development. The goal of the current study was to examine the structure of children’s drawings using crowd-sourced human similarity judgments and machine vision approaches.
Although folding a piece of paper might seem simple for adults, it requires a complex integration of skills that might be difficult for children.
Children’s drawings have long been used to assess aspects of general cognitive functioning, intelligence, perceptual motor development, and even socio-emotional development. Recently, practitioners have begun to perform drawing assessments using tablets and other forms of media; yet there has been little to attempt to validate these methods.
