The study by the American Psychological Association aimed to show how much young children learn from picture book interactions and how the nature of the pictures for children might influence how well they learn from them.
Judy Deloache of the University of Virginia, who led the study, along with Gabrielle Simcock from the University of Queensland, Australia, said, 'Very young children do extend information from the pages of a book to the real world and the more realistic the pictures, the more transfer there is. It means that for books designed to teach very young children new information, learning will be more successful with highly realistic pictures.'
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