Grasping the Nature of Pictures

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The Origins of Pictorial Competence (2003, result): “In one of our studies (DeLoache et al., 1998), we compared how young children of different ages interacted with pictures (see Fig.”
Do Both Pictures and Words Function as Symbols for 18- and 24-Month-Old Children? (2004, background): “This is the youngest age at which toddlers have completely ceased attempting to interact with pictured objects as they would with real objects (DeLoache et al., 1998).”
Infants' Manual Exploration of Pictorial Objects Varying in Realism (2003, methodology): “Perhaps the infants in Study 1 and in our previous research (DeLoache et al., 1998) were responding to areas of high contrast rather than to the depicted objects per se.”
Transfer between Picture Books and the Real World by Very Young Children (2008, background): “By 18 months of age, children no longer manually explore pictures; instead, they point at and name depicted objects, treating them as objects of contemplation rather than action (DeLoache et al., 1998; Murphy, 1978).”
Why Do Line Drawings Work? A Realism Hypothesis (2020, background): “Babies frequently treat objects in photos as if they are real, for example, DeLoache et al. (1998), and must learn the dichotomous nature of images.”