The Artist’s Intent in Flux

Mental Rotation in Artists and Non-artists

This research was conducted to compare visuospatial skills in male and female artists and non-artists. Twenty artists (10 males and 10 females) and 20 non-artists (10 males and 10 females) were tested for accuracy and reaction time in a lateralized three-dimensional mental rotation task. Males had significantly fewer errors than females, which is consistent with previous research, but this main...

Women Artists in the Collection

Pinning Down the Artists ?

There is a wide variety of work being done by artists working both in conventional genres such as Music, Dance and Theatre as well as newly emergent hybrid and innovative forms such as real-time animation and physically distributed and telematic performance. I want to build up a picture both of what technical resources artists are employing – and to what effect technology is being used; what th...

Executive functions in savant artists 1 Running head: Executive functions in savant artists Executive functions in savant artists with autism

Although executive functions have been widely studied in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), there have been no direct empirical studies of executive abilities in savants with ASD. This study assessed three facets of executive ability – fluency, perseveration and monitoring – in savant artists with ASD, compared to nontalented adults with ASD or moderate learning difficulties (MLD...

Artists' impressions

The recent fuss over one man's ambition to 'make Man in his own image' lends poignancy to Multiplicity, the current exhibition at the Wellcome Trust in London. Timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the arrival of Dolly the cloned sheep, the exhibition presents the reactions of 24 artists to cloning and genetic engineering. Some of the pictures, like Dave Roberts' mixed media 'Blueprin...