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

Peter van Sommers

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511897672

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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Descriptive and Experimental Studies of Graphic Production Processes

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-x

Preface
pp xi-xii

1 - Basic executive constraints in drawing
pp 1-29

2 - Maintaining paper contact, anchoring, and planning
pp 30-51

3 - The reproduction of rectilinear figures
pp 52-71

4 - The production of curvilinear forms
pp 72-94

5 - The impact of meaning on executive strategies
pp 95-114

6 - Simple representational drawing
pp 115-130

7 - Difficult graphic tasks: A failure in perceptual analysis?
pp 131-160

8 - Stability and evolution in children's drawings
pp 161-173

9 - Innovations, primitives, contour, and space in children's drawings
pp 174-203

10 - Children's repeated drawings: How are innovations coded?
pp 204-232

11 - The pragmatics of everyday graphic production
pp 233-270

References
pp 271-274

Index
pp 275-284

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