Abstract
These experiments were designed to analyze the development of the drawings of squares by children in Kanji (Chinese characters) and nonKanji cultures by using a system of writing strokes in an orderly way. This system has been formalized in the Kanji culture. The younger children drew squares naturally in a clockwise sequence and the results seem to be consistent with the serial-recognition hypothesis. But as the children increased in age, they drew lines from the top to the bottom and from the left to the right according to the basic rules of a stroke-order, which seemed to support the hypothesis that familiarity of objects to the subject plays an important role in explaining the development from the serial-recognition hypothesis to the Gestalt hypothesis in recognition of the integrated features as a whole along with motor memory.
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