Ability to generate mental images in students of art |
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Authors: | Sarah E Zemore |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, Mason Hall, Pomona College, 91711 Claremont, CA |
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Abstract: | To evaluate the ability to generate mental images and its relations to artistic training, 44 undergraduates were presented
with a list of selected fragments from 40 characters in the Roman alphabet. Subjects provided those letters suggested by the
fragments for as many items as possible within a 90-second interval. It was hypothesized that students who had received college
training in studio art would be able to produce a greater number of candidate images than students not trained in art, resulting
in more correct answers and higher scores. Results confirmed the hypothesis. Trained subjects completed significantly more
of the letters on the image-generation task than did those not trained in art (p=.0001). This suggests that superior ability
to generate images is associated with artistic training. Further, these results imply that, to the degree to which artistic
training reflects ability, image generation may also be related to artistic ability. |
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