Drawing and Cognition: Descriptive and Experimental Studies of Graphic Production Processes - Brossura

Sommers, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0521110637 ISBN 13: 9780521110631

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

When we do something as apparently simple as sketching a map, constructing a working diagram, or drawing an imaginary face to amuse ourselves, we utilise a complex set of abilities: perceptual, mechanical, strategic, representational, pragmatic. Peter van Sommers sets out to distinguish and describe the various layers of organisation in the drawing performances of ordinary people - adults and children. Drawings, like language, have a multi-layered structure. Because much of the structure represents tacit knowledge, a variety of special observational and analytic methods must be developed to provide a comprehensive empirical account of graphic production. This book illuminates the link between laboratory methods and the study of an important skill exercised in the real world. It will be of interest to a wide range of cognitive psychologists as well as to many neuropsychologists and others concerned with art, aesthetics, writing and script evolution.

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When we do something as apparently simple as constructing a working diagram, or drawing an imaginary face to amuse ourselves, we utilise a complex set of abilities: perceptual, mechanical, strategic, representational, pragmatic. Peter van Sommers sets out to distinguish and describe the various layers of organisation in the drawing performances of ordinary people.

Contenuti:

Preface; 1. Basic executive constraints in drawing; 2. Maintaining paper contact, anchoring and planning; 3. The reproduction of rectilinear figures; 4. The production of curvilinear forms; 5. The impact of meaning on executive strategies; 6. Simple representational drawing; 7. Difficult graphic tasks: a failure in perceptual analysis?; 8. Stability and evolution in children's drawings; 9. Innovations, primitives, contour and space in children's drawings; 10. Children's repeated drawings: how are innovations coded?; 11. The pragmatics of everyday graphic production; References; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521110637
• ISBN 13: 9780521110631
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 300