Art Students Who Cannot Draw: Exploring the Relations Between Drawing Ability, Visual Memory, Accuracy of Copying, and Dyslexia

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-30

  McManus, I C ^a   Chamberlain, Rebecca ^a   Loo, Phik Wern ^a   Rankin, Qona ^b   Riley, Howard ^c   Brunswick, Nicola ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART   (United Kingdom)

^c Swansea Metropolitan University   (United Kingdom)

^d MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

art students; drawing ability; dyslexia; Rey Osterrieth complex figure; visual memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649213858     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017335     Document Type: Article

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