Did You Know: Multiple Studies Have Shown How Artists Have Different Brains
You Read That Right…It’s been shown that artistic people actually DO have structurally different brains.
There is a difference in brain structure between artists and non-artists, which accounts for the difference in ability. Artists view the world differently, focusing on the whole visual field rather than individual objects. This allows them to see shadows and contours that non-artists would miss. With enough training, anyone can develop this ability.
Accomplished painters can, with a few strokes of a brush, define trees, brooks, bridges, people on those bridges, and the whole rest of the beautiful world. However, as a non-painter or artistic novice, you frustratingly scratch with your graphite to put a believable nose on a man that you need to draw for your art class. The end result is a strange cross between a human being and a Pokemon!
The study, titled "Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Analysis Of Observational Drawing," included 44 graduate and post-grad art students and non-art students who were asked to complete various drawing tasks. The completed tasks were measured and scored, and that data was compared to "regional grey and white matter volume in the cortical and subcortical structures" of the brain using a scanning method called voxel-based morphometry. An increase in grey matter density on the left anterior cerebellum and the right medial frontal gyrus was observed in relation to drawing skills.
The scans depicted that the artist group had more grey matter in the area of the brain called the precuneus in the parietal lobe. That region is involved with many skills, but could possibly be linked to controlling your mind's eye for visual creativity.
Lead author Rebecca Chamberlain from KU Leuven, Belgium noted, "The people who are better at drawing really seem to have more developed structures in regions of the brain that control for fine motor performance and what we call procedural memory."
Studying the brain's make-up in experts versus non-experts has been a practice in music ability, complex motor skills, and more, but according to the research paper, "No studies have assessed the structural differences associated with representational skills in visual arts.”
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But we believe that EVERYONE has creativity and artistic tendencies in some form or another. anything from reading and writing, to playing an instrument, being a great chef, or having a knack for putting together a fabulous outfit are creative outlets and everyone is good at something!
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