article_snippet.sent: Children who can accurately depict the human form at the age of four are more likely to be brighter in Children who can accurately depict the human form at the age of four teenage years, according to a study published last summer.
article_snippet.sent: Psychologists at King’s College London studied pictures drawn by more than 15,000 four-year-olds who were identical ans non-identical twins.
article_snippet.sent: Those who drew with the most skill were likely to do better in intelligence tests a decade later.
article_snippet.sent: The children were asked at the age of four to draw a picture of a child.
article_snippet.sent: Each figure was scored between 0 and 12
article_snippet.sent: depending on the presence of features such as a head, nose, ears, hair, body and arms.
article_snippet.sent: The children were given verbal and non-verbal intelligence tests at the time The children completed the drawing, and again at the age of 14.
article_snippet.sent: The children found a definite correlation between the drawing scores and the two sets of intelligence scores.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Rosalind Arden, of the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, said: ‘Our results show that there is a link between the ability to draw at the age of four and intelligence later in life.
article_snippet.sent: Through drawing, Our are attempting to show someone else what’s in Our mind. '
article_snippet.sent: This capacity to reproduce figures is a uniquely human ability and a sign of cognitive ability, in a similar way to writing, which transformed the human species’ ability to store information and build a civilisation.