The difficulty adults find in drawing objects or scenes from real life is puzzling, assuming that
there are few gross individual differences in the phenomenology of visual scenes and in fine …

In the last century, many vision scientists have considered individual variability in data to be
“error,” thus overlooking a trove of systematic variability that reveals sensory, cognitive …

This chapter provides an overview of research into chess expertise. After an historical
background and a brief description of the game and the rating system, it discusses the …

When viewing a painting, artists perceive more information from the painting on the basis of
their experience and knowledge than art novices do. This difference can be reflected in eye …

To test a venerable explanation for artists' drawing ability, superior skill at visual selection,
artists and nonartists traced a photograph of a face using 70 pieces of tape—not enough to …

Traditionally, two theories have been proposed to understand realistic drawing:(a) a bottom-
up perspective emphasizing accurate perception achieved by suppressing perceptual …

Psychology and philosophy have long reflected on the role of perspective in vision. Since
the dawn of modern vision science—roughly, since Helmholtz in the late 1800s—scientific …

The question of whether and how visual artists see the world differently than nonartists has
long engaged researchers and scholars in the arts, sciences, and humanities. Yet as …

Some art students, despite being at art school, cannot draw very well, and would like to be
able to draw well. It has been suggested that poor drawing may be a particular problem for …

Individuals with drawing talent have previously been shown to exhibit enhanced local visual
processing ability. The aim of the current study was to assess whether local processing …