Chamberlain, Rebecca; Kozbelt, Aaron; Drake, Jennifer and Wagemans, Johan. 2021. Learning to See by Learning to Draw: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship Between Representational Drawing Training and Visuospatial Skill. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15(1), pp. 76-90. ISSN 1931-3896 [Article]

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A growing body of correlational research has revealed systematic relationships between various aspects of visuospatial processing and representational drawing ability. However, very few studies have sought to examine the longitudinal development of the relation between drawing and visuospatial ability. The current investigation explored change in drawing and visuospatial skill in art students taking a foundational drawing course (n = 42) in a longitudinal design. Measures of representational drawing skill, dispositional traits, and visuospatial skill were taken at three time points over the course of five months. The findings reveal improvements in representational drawing, mental rotation, disembedding figures, and attentional switching. However, individual differences in change over time on one task did not predict change in another, revealing implications for domain-specific and domain-general aspects of art and design expertise.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000243
Additional Information:	©American Psychological Association. This article may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/aca/index
Keywords:	artists, drawing, spatial skills, visual perception, expertise
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 18 February 2019 Accepted 8 April 2019 Published Online February 2021 Published
Item ID:	25885
Date Deposited:	22 Feb 2019 16:39
Last Modified:	12 Jun 2021 04:45
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/25885

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