The Art of Looking at Art by Gene Wisniewski

Author:Gene Wisniewski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2020-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

What Dr. Corballis is saying, in other words, is that if you put both sides of your mind to it, you, too, can be more creative.

NOTES

1. Kate Russell, “Gamers Get Into ‘the Zone,’” BBC, July 28, 2002.

2. Mark Jung-Beeman, Edward M. Bowden, Jason Haberman, Jennifer L. Frymiare, Stella Arambel-Li, Richard Greenblatt, Paul J. Rebe, and John Kounios, “Neural Activity When People Solve Verbal Problems with Insight,” PLOS Biology 2, no. 4 (April 13, 2004): e97, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020097.

3. The inferior temporal gyrus also helps us recognize objects and (possibly) faces. The superior temporal gyrus is responsible for processing sound and (possibly) analyzing the emotions behind facial expressions.

4. There were exceptions. “Michael Gazzaniga and Roger W. Sperry . . . found that several patients who had undergone a complete calloscotomy suffered from split-brain syndrome. In patients with split-brain syndrome the right hemisphere . . . acts independently of the left hemisphere and the person’s ability to make rational decisions. This can give rise to a kind of split personality, in which the left hemisphere gives orders that reflect the person’s rational goals, whereas the right hemisphere issues conflicting demands that reveal hidden desires . . . One of their child participants, Paul S., had a fully functional language center in both hemispheres. This allowed the researchers to question each side of the brain. When they asked the right side what their patient wanted to be when he grew up, he replied ‘an automobile racer.’ When they posed the same question to the left, however, he responded ‘a draftsman.’ Another patient pulled down his pants with the left hand and back up with the right in a continuing struggle. On a different occasion, this same patient’s left hand made an attempt to strike the unsuspecting wife as the right hand grabbed the villainous limb to stop it” (Berit Brogaard, On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015], 97–98).

5. This is exemplified by two leading theories on how the interpretation of emotions is lateralized. The first proposes that the left brain labels emotions and processes the content of emotional language, while the right brain analyzes facial expressions and tone of voice (Gu Vingerhoets, Celine Berckmoes, and Nathalie Stroobant, “Cerebral Hemodynamics During Discrimination of Prosodic and Semantic Emotion in Speech Studied by Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography,” Neuropsychology 17, no. 1 [2003]: 93–99). Meanwhile, the “approach-withdrawal hypothesis” places recognition of “approach emotions” (happiness, surprise, anger) on the left side, and “withdrawal emotions” (sadness, fear, disgust) on the right—probably an evolutionary response to aid in decision-making during “fight or flight” situations (Nelson Torro Alves, Sérgio S. Fukusima, and J. Antonio Aznar-Casanova, “Models of Brain Asymmetry in Emotional Processing,” Psychology & Neuroscience 1, no. 1 [2008]: 63–66).

6. Betty Edwards earned a doctorate in preparation for writing the book. She retired in 1998, but her son Brian Bomeisler still teaches workshops based on her methods.

7. For some art you need a grid. Photorealism—drawings or paintings of photographs that make people say, “Ooh, it looks just

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