Drawing and the Non-Verbal Mind - A Life-Span Perspective

Drawing and its analysis has been an important discipline of Developmental Psychology since the early twentieth century. This unique collection of essays unites leading empirical researchers from Europe, the United States and Canada to provide a valuable introduction to drawing research. Focusing on the core problems associated with the visual mind, the contributors examine how drawing development relates to changes in cognition. Topics covered include visual (self) recognition, style, media understanding, inhibition, executive attention, priming, memory, meaning, and figural and spatial concepts. The effects of biological constraints such as motor control, grip and handedness, blindness, neuropsychological conditions and old age are also explained. The book provides a fascinating insight into the life-span and productivity of the non-verbal, visual mind. Contents
1. Contemporary enquiries into a long-standing domain: drawing research Chris Lange-Kttner and Annie Vinter
Part I. Self, Symbols and Intention: 2. Understanding reflections of self and other objects Kim Bard
3. Drawing production, drawing re-experience and drawing re-cognition Josephine Ross
4. Style and other factors affecting childrens recognition of their own drawings Robin N. Campbell, Pauline A. Duncan, Anita L. Harrison and Lynne C. Mathewson
5. Childrens understanding of the dual nature of pictures Richard Jolley
6. Pictorial intention, action and interpretation Norman H. Freeman and Esther Adi-Japha
Part II. Syntax, Space Systems and Projection: 7. The interaction of biomechanical and cognitive constraints in the production of childrens drawing Gregory Braswell and Karl Rosengren
8. Graphic syntax and representational development Annie Vinter, Delphine Picard and Viviane Fernandes
9. Spatial structures in childrens drawings: how do they develop? Sergio Morra
10. Figures in and out of context: absent, simple, complex and halved spatial fields Chris Lange-Kttner
11. Spatial and symbolic codes in the development of three-dimensional graphic representation Maria A. Tallandini and Luisa Morassi
12. On contours seen and contours drawn Jan B. Deregowski
Part III. Aging, Blindness and Autism: 13. Benefits of graphic design expertise in old age: compensatory effects of a graphical lexicon? Ulman Lindenberger, Yvonne Brehmer, Reinhold Kliegl and Paul B. Baltes
14. Drawing as a window on deteriorating conceptual knowledge in neurodegenerative disease Karalyn Patterson and Sharon W. Erzinlioglu
15. Drawings by a blind adult: orthogonals, parallels and convergence in two directions without T-junctions John M. Kennedy and Igor Juricevic
16. Differences between individuals with and without autism in copying tasks: how knowledge interferes when drawing perspective Elizabeth Sheppard, Peter Mitchell and Danielle Ropar.

Author/Editor Details
Edited by: Chris Lange-Kttner, London Metropolitan University
Edited by: Annie Vinter, Universit de Bourgogne, France