ABSTRACT
In this chapter we will see how the child forms visual representations about the structure of events and objects from investigations of the directional axes of movement: including, going around and around, up and down, going through passages or volumes, or going inside other objects. It may be, as Inge Bretherton (1984) has suggested, that internal representations of objects are derived initially from interiorized event scripts. In representational play, and in drawing, it appears that event descriptions lead to constructions of differentiated objects. From descriptions of actions, the child starts to construct the main axes of objects and possible views of objects. For example, the core and radial, derives from an elliptical circuit combined with single, straight-line journeys; or, another example, the cruciform cross-over and rightangular attachment, is derived from movements through two opposing axes. In this chapter, we will consider how the child builds up a more complex set of interrelated dimensions and axes and gradually constructs a visual and kinaesthetic description of space, form and movement.
