Kozbelt, Aaron; Drake, Jennifer E. and Chamberlain, Rebecca. 2024. Expertise in drawing. In: A. M Williams; Aaron Kozbelt; Franzis Preckel and R. R Hoffman, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, 3rd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Book Section] (In Press)

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The domain of drawing is an engaging nexus for the study of expertise. Drawing involves the complex deployment and integration of perception, attention, semantic and procedural knowledge, motor action, and evaluation processes. Realistic drawing requires the visual system to solve the same kinds of problems as the visual system does generally, so that artists can depict any object or scene convincingly. Thus, drawing may be associated with some generalized perceptual advantages, in contrast to the familiar-pattern-limited advantages in the classic expertise literature. Research on drawing expertise has revealed limited artist advantages in lowlevel processes like perceptual constancies but some higher-level advantages like greater ability to analyze the structure of objects and enhanced attentional flexibility. We also review evidence from specialized populations that suggests that both local and global information may be important for drawing expertise. Finally, we discuss some neuroscientific findings on drawing, methodological issues and how these are being addressed by new technologies, the relation between skilled drawing and aesthetic and creative aspects of image-making, and the extension of drawing expertise principles to non-artistic uses of drawing.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	art, artists, visual perception, visual cognition, attention, bottom-up processing, top-down processing, expertise, global processing, local processing, talent development
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Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 2024 Accepted
Item ID:	37793
Date Deposited:	31 Oct 2024 10:13
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2024 17:06
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37793

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