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"In fact, the brain of a very young child does perceive letters differently than an adult brain: not as fixed, flat symbols but as three-dimensional objects rot

• teruakohatu 4y ago
  At a guess, children famously sometimes write letters rotated or mirrored. But that could simply be poor feature extraction when learning or poor/untrained auto-encoding.
  • smeagull 4y ago
    My child wrote letters mirrored, when I demonstrated writing by doing it backwards (but right-side up for her). I then realised that she was doing the more complex stuff, and I should just do things as simply as possible. The mirroring that happens also tends to happen on letters that have mirrored counterparts. So I see backwards Zs and Ses, and Ds & Bs swapped, but I've never seen a backwards F.
    • karatinversion 4y ago
      My mother used to keep a card I wrote her when preschool aged, which read “happy Mother’s Day” entirely mirrored, written right to left
• humanistbot 4y ago
  Aside from reading, most of what children are observing are 3D objects in 3D space. Reading comes right after the developmental stage when children have mostly full object permanence and consistency. They finally understand that the same object can be viewed from many different sides, flipped around, turned upside down, and still they are the same thing. Except in reading!