The comprehension and production of pantomimes on the part of 3- and 5-year-olds and nonneurologically impaired adults was studied. In a comprehension task, subjects watched a videotape of a woman performing 3 training pantomimes and 8 test pantomimes and then explained what the woman was pretending to do. The test pantomimes included 4 pantomimes…

Two studies examined the progress in normally developing preschoolers' ability to produce actions with imagined objects (pantomimes). Found that young children not only had difficulty producing imaginary object representations in contrast to normal adults, they also had difficulty comprehending imaginary object representations and were better at…