Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Cognition and Artists

And now for one of my favorite science blogs: Cognitive Daily
by Greta and Dave Munger. Greta is a psychologist, and Dave is a writer.
http://www.scienceblogs.com/cognitive daily/

How are artists trained to see? can you tell which picture was looked at by an artist below?


Check out these other articles on art and cogition at http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/research/art/

-sam smiley :-)

1 comment:

Carol said...

I found this information amazing and very useful in thinking differently about how I instruct middle and high school art students in visual arts. The big ah-ha was in understanding why specific features would be distorted in their drawings...Of course it makes sense but seeing the mappings of the eye paths was "eye-opening."
Thanks,
Carol