Tabitha Nduku Kilonzo

When and how do children come to understand various kinds of visual media (e.g., pictures, videos, scale models), and how does early experience contribute to variation in the development of visual media comprehension across global contexts? In this selective review, we show that while researchers have investigated how children from Western convenience samples understand visual media, less is known about how this comprehension varies across children in global contexts.

1 Introduction In high-income Western contexts, the most widely used learning materials (e.g., books, posters) and assessment tools of early cognitive abilities (e.g., Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Denver Developmental Screening Test, Wechsler Preschool, and Primary Scale of Intelligence) all involve picture stimuli as part of a battery of tests (Fernald et al. 2017).