The neuropsychology of visual art: conferring capacity.
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چکیده
The eVects of brain damage on the capacity to produce visual art stand in sharp contrast to many other human capacities. Diseases of the brain can impair our ability to speak or comprehend language, coordinate movements, recognize objects, apprehend emotions, and make logical decisions. By contrast, while diseases of the brain can certainly alter the ability to produce art, in many instances it is not so clear that the results are ‘‘impaired.’’ Paradoxically, in some cases the art seems to improve. In what follows, I will review the ways in which neurological disorders can create a disposition to produce visual art, provide artists with a unique visual vocabulary, add to artists’ descriptive accuracy, and enhance their expressive powers. These alterations are, of course, predicated on the brain damage not producing the kind of motor weakness that would make graphic expression impossible. I am not claiming that artists, by dint of their special talents, are exempt from the ravages of brain damage. Elsewhere, I have reviewed ways in which brain-damaged artists manifest deficits, such as achromatopsia, unilateral spatial neglect, visual agnosias, and asymbolias, similar to nonartists, albeit more eloquently (Chatterjee, 2004a,b).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- International review of neurobiology
دوره 74 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006