Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation: How jigsaw puzzles index metacognitive development
(2020)
Journal Article
Doherty, M. J., Wimmer, M. C., Gollek, C., Stone, C., & Robinson, E. J. (2021). Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation: How jigsaw puzzles index metacognitive development. Child Development, 92(1), 205-221. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13391
Jigsaw puzzles are ubiquitous developmental toys in Western societies, used here to examine the development of metarepresentation. For jigsaw puzzles this entails understanding that individual pieces, when assembled, produce a picture. In Experiment... Read More about Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation: How jigsaw puzzles index metacognitive development.