The Development of Expertise in the Visual Arts

Chamberlain, Rebecca

doi:10.4324/9781315113371-8

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“…The aesthetic experience embodies the actions taken to appreciate aesthetic elements, as well as the emotions and bodily sensations that this elicits (Brinck, 2018). The ability of VAs to apply aesthetic experience and insight to the creation of artworks depends largely on their visual capacity (visual perception, visual memory, visual attention) and creativity (Chamberlain, 2017). Enhanced visual capability and visual creativity are perhaps the most prominent characteristics of VAs (Cupchik et al, 2009) and the visual system may be the neurological source of these abilities (Pepperell, 2011).…”

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Enhanced intrinsic functional connectivity in the visual system of visual artist: Implications for creativity

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IntroductionThis study sought to elucidate the cognitive traits of visual artists (VAs) from the perspective of visual creativity and the visual system (i.e., the most fundamental neural correlate).MethodsWe examined the local and long-distance intrinsic functional connectivity (FC) of the visual system to unravel changes in brain traits among VAs. Twenty-seven university students majoring in visual arts and 27 non-artist controls were enrolled.ResultsVAs presented enhanced local FC in the right superior parietal lobule, right precuneus, left inferior temporal gyrus (ITG), left superior parietal lobule, left angular gyrus, and left middle occipital gyrus. VAs also presented enhanced FC with the ITG that targeted the visual area (occipital gyrus and cuneus), which appears to be associated with visual creativity.DiscussionThe visual creativity of VAs was correlated with strength of intrinsic functional connectivity in the visual system. Learning-induced neuroplasticity as a trait change observed in VAs can be attributed to the macroscopic consolidation of consociated neural circuits that are engaged over long-term training in the visual arts and aesthetic experience. The consolidated network can be regarded as virtuoso-specific neural fingerprint.

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Enhanced intrinsic functional connectivity in the visual system of visual artist: Implications for creativity

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“…Recent research has produced conflicting findings with regards to the impact of musical and computer game training on attention, intelligence, working memory and processing speed, calling into question whether training in these domains truly leads to far transfer (Sala & Gobet, 2017;Sala, Tatlidil, & Gobet, 2018). As there is very little extant research in this domain, the current study focuses on aspects of near-transfer; those skills such as mental rotation and flexible visual attention that have robust links to artistic ability already, and are conceivably domain-specific (see Chamberlain, 2018 andKozbelt &Ostrofsky, 2018, for discussions on what constitutes the domain of artistic expertise).…”

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“…were examined using a modified version of the Embedded Figures Test (Witkin, 1950), which has been validated and used in previous research (Chamberlain, & Chamberlain, 2018). Stimuli were presented as black patterns on a white background.…”

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Learning to see by learning to draw: A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between representational drawing training and visuospatial skill.

Chamberlain

Kozbelt

Drake

et al. 2021

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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A growing body of correlational research has revealed systematic relationships between various aspects of visuospatial processing and representational drawing ability. However, very few studies have sought to examine the longitudinal development of the relation between drawing and visuospatial ability. The current investigation explored change in drawing and visuospatial skill in art students taking a foundational drawing course (n = 42) in a longitudinal design. Measures of representational drawing skill, dispositional traits, and visuospatial skill were taken at three time points over the course of five months. The findings reveal improvements in representational drawing, mental rotation, disembedding figures, and attentional switching. However, individual differences in change over time on one task did not predict change in another, revealing implications for domain-specific and domain-general aspects of art and design expertise.

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“…Differences between artists and nonartists may be in large part due to practice and instruction (Chamberlain, 2017) but artists’ superior skills could also be observed because individuals having superior motor coordination, visual perception, memory, or attention self-select into art fields (Chamberlain, 2018). To fully tease apart these two causes would require experiments using random assignment, or at the least measuring perception, attention, memory, and the like before any art practice or art instruction; of course, that could be a practical challenge given that many people who become artists began taking additional art instruction when they are young.…”

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Can art change the way we see?

Benear¹,

Sunday²,

Davidson³

et al. 2019

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Visual art is pervasive in modern society. From advertising to fine arts galleries, the visual arts play a visible role in how we view and understand the world. In this review, we consider research that speaks to whether our experiences with art can change the way we see. Numerous studies speak, often indirectly, to this question—addressing whether artists see things differently from nonartists. Specifically, we reviewed literature that investigates the ways artistic ability and artistic training interact with visual abilities from the perspective that artists can be described as experts in visual media. Some work suggests that those who identify as artists or undergo artistic training perform better than nonartists on measures of low-level vision, high-level perception, and visual cognition, and show differences in brain activity while engaged in perceptual or artistic tasks. Other studies do not support these conclusions, however, and report no differences between artists and nonartists. We conclude that experimentally designed and well controlled training studies are necessary to elucidate whether artistic training shapes the brain and its perceptual and cognitive processes or whether budding artists gravitate toward the visual arts because of existing visual abilities.

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The Development of Expertise in the Visual Arts

Cited by 5 publications

References 71 publications

Enhanced intrinsic functional connectivity in the visual system of visual artist: Implications for creativity

Enhanced intrinsic functional connectivity in the visual system of visual artist: Implications for creativity

Learning to see by learning to draw: A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between representational drawing training and visuospatial skill.

Can art change the way we see?

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