Why children paint trees blue
Did you ever wonder why your toddler will paint that sky green, or the grass pink? While she may be a budding impressionist with a very impressive post-modern flare, there may be another reason.
Vanessa Simmering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison had a theory and decided to test it out by having 28 four year olds and 28 five year olds watch colored shapes on a computer screen. While the younger set could easily identify when the shapes themselves changed, they didn’t notice when the color did.
The parts of our minds that pay attention to the shape details and the coloring of our brains are found in different regions of the brain. It seems, and as Simmering’s study seems to back up, that a four year olds brain may not have developed the ability to ‘see’ the difference yet.
Information found through: New Scientist
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