When the weather's bad and there's no prospect of a trip to the park, we might well reach for crayons, pencils and paper as a way to keep our children entertained. But drawing is much more than a fun ...

Drawing may look like a simple childhood pastime, but research suggests it is doing far more than filling blank pages. It engages perception, memory, motor control and even early social understanding, ...

Tools for expressing ideas in visual form have been critically important throughout human history. These cognitive tools lie at the heart of some of humanity’s most important inventions, including art ...

A study tracking 125 preschoolers aged 3 to 6 found that drawing ability and language development move together, with both linked to working memory capacity and executive functions like inhibition and ...