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BRIEF OBSERVATIONS ON THE DRAWING, MEMORY, AND THINKING
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Current research of neuroscientists about the processing of the signals captured from our eyes show that our perception of images occurs in a segmented way into our brain. This paper proposes some implications of this fact in the relationship between drawing and our visual perception. Brief description of the study and used methods. Brief description of the study and used methods.
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I refer to the painter and professor at School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, my colleague Licius Bossolan, to whom I thank for his fruitful comments.
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Professor Gustav Kuhn from Brunel University, affirms in a BBC documentary on the subject (BBC Horizon: Season 47, Episode 4:”Is Seeing Believing?”, 18 Oct. 2010. Downloaded from < http://www.mvgroup.org >) that: "If we had to process all the information that we feel and are conscious about, we would need to have a gigantic brain inside a huge head, which our bodies could simply not support. Instead of this model, we have evolved, I believe, towards a very intelligent awareness system that processes only the information we really need “, at 24'32" on the movie.
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