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Children's Drawings

Nature volume 53, page 510 (1896)Cite this article

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As supplementary to the interesting note in NATURE of February 20 on children's drawings, I may mention that some children of my acquaintance show what seems a strong native tendency to reverse right and left in drawing such letters as L and J, making them J and U. It is possible this confusion is akin to that confusion of right and left which one first feels on using a mirror for toilet purposes, as shaving, &c.

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    HIRAM M. STANLEY

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STANLEY, H. Children's Drawings. Nature 53, 510 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053510d0

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