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Drawing Conclusions: An Exploration of the Cognitiveand Neuroscientific Foundations of RepresentationalDrawing

Chamberlain, RS; (2013) Drawing Conclusions: An Exploration of the Cognitive and Neuroscientific Foundations ofRepresentational Drawing. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

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AbstractThe present thesis describes an exploration of cognitive, perceptual and neuroscientific foundations of representationaldrawing. To motivate experimental hypotheses, an initial qualitative study of artists attitudes and approaches to drawingwas conducted. Themes from the qualitative data, predominantly concerning the relationship between perception anddrawing, were developed into a large scale survey study of over 600 art students at undergraduate and postgraduatelevel. The survey study assessed the role of personality and demographic factors as well as perceptual styles andabilities, isolating the role of approaches to study, practice and technique use on externally-rated drawing ability. Thequalitative and survey studies provided the foundation for further empirical work, the first of which was an exploration ofthe use of image manipulation and shape analysis for measuring the accuracy of drawings, with the intention of providingmore reliable and valid dependent measures in the study of drawing. This investigation revealed differences in the wayindividuals judge the accuracy of drawings according to the stimuli they represent and presents a novel method forcomparing aesthetic and accuracy judgments of drawing. The three experimental chapters of this thesis describeinvestigations into visual perception and memory in association with drawing in students of arts and non-arts subjectswith an emphasis on angular/proportional perception, local-global visual processing and long and short-term visualmemory. These studies revealed that individual differences in visual perception and visual long-term memory whenrendering explain a large proportion of individual differences in drawing ability. The final empirical chapter reports avoxel-based morphometry study of structural neural correlates with individual differences in drawing and artistic ability.The results of this study emphasize the role of procedural memory and fine motor control in the development of long-termdrawing expertise. The enquiry culminates in the presentation of a toolbox for drawing which includes visual, educationaland motor modules. Its potential use in art and design education in teaching protocol is then discussed. The researchfindings could have a significant impact on the way in which art schools employ artistic training and could provide earlydiagnostic tools for identifying talent in the arts.

Type: Thesis (Doctoral)

Title: Drawing Conclusions: An Exploration of the Cognitive and Neuroscientific Foundations ofRepresentational Drawing

Language: English

Keywords: Art, Drawing, Visual perception, Visual memory, Expertise

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