Drawing as a versatile cognitive tool

JE Fan, WA Bainbridge, R Chamberlain… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Drawing is a cognitive tool that makes the invisible contents of mental life visible. Humans
use this tool to produce a remarkable variety of pictures, from realistic portraits to schematic …

Comparative research on neural dysfunction in children with dyslexia under different writing systems: A meta-analysis study

YZ Li, HY Bi - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Developmental dyslexia is a special learning disorder which is prevalent in all languages. A
central question in dyslexia is whether the neural mechanism of their defects is universal or …

Relating visual production and recognition of objects in human visual cortex

JE Fan, JD Wammes, JB Gunn… - Journal of …, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
Drawing is a powerful tool that can be used to convey rich perceptual information about
objects in the world. What are the neural mechanisms that enable us to produce a …

A tutorial on capturing mental representations through drawing and crowd-sourced scoring

WA Bainbridge - Behavior Research Methods, 2022 - Springer
When we draw, we are depicting a rich mental representation reflecting a memory, percept,
schema, imagination, or feeling. In spite of the abundance of data created by drawings …

Drawing enhances memory for emotional words.

SHN Tran, MA Fernandes - Canadian Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Past work has demonstrated that drawing a sketch, compared to writing during encoding,
improves memory of to-be-remembered words, pictures, and academic terms. We examined …

[HTML][HTML] Temporally resolved neural dynamics underlying handwriting

L Pei, M Longcamp, FKS Leung, G Ouyang - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
How do the temporal dynamics of neural activity encode highly coordinated visual-motor
behaviour? To capture the millisecond-resolved neural activations associated with fine …

Age differences in effectiveness of encoding techniques on memory

SHN Tran, MA Fernandes - Aging, Neuropsychology, and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We compared the effectiveness of different encoding techniques across the adult age range.
Three hundred participants: 100 younger, 100 middle-aged, and 100 older adults, were …

Influence of visual feedback persistence on visuo-motor skill improvement

A Unell, ZM Eisenstat, A Braun, A Gandhi… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Towards the larger goal of understanding factors relevant for improving visuo-motor control,
we investigated the role of visual feedback for modulating the effectiveness of a simple hand …

Visual experiences during letter production contribute to the development of the neural systems supporting letter perception

S Vinci‐Booher, KH James - Developmental science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Letter production through handwriting creates visual experiences that may be important for
the development of visual letter perception. We sought to better understand the neural …

Dissociation of writing processes: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on the neural substrates for the handwritten production of Chinese characters

J He, L Brehm, Q Zhang - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Writing is an important way to communicate in everyday life because it can convey
information over time and space, but its neural substrates remain poorly known. Although …