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Prather, P A; Bacon, Joshua – Child Development, 1986
Describes preschool children's ability to simultaneously perceive multiple aspects of an object in two experiments during which three- to five-year-olds were asked to describe part/whole pictures. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Metacognition, Perceptual Development, Pictorial Stimuli

Dukette, Dianne; Stiles, Joan – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Examines the development of young children's analysis of spatial patterns--specifically, hierarchical letter and geometric forms. Suggests that although children as young as four years of age demonstrated substantial analytic competence, their ability to integrate the parts of the spatial array to form a coherent whole was weaker and more easily…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages