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A Visually Impaired Savant Artist: Interacting Perceptual and Memory Representations
Author(s) -
Hermelin Beate,
Pring Linda,
Buhler Michael,
Wolff Sula,
Heaton Pamela
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/1469-7610.00529
Subject(s) - psychology , visually impaired , painting , perception , visual perception , cognitive psychology , natural (archaeology) , visual arts , cognitive science , art , neuroscience , optometry , history , medicine , archaeology
In this single case study, paintings by a visually impaired and cognitively handicapped savant artist are evaluated. He paints his pictures exclusively from memory, either after having looked at a natural scene through binoculars, or after studying landscape photographs in brochures, catalogues, and books. The paintings are compared with the models from which they were derived, and the resulting generative changes are accounted for by an interaction between impaired visual input and memory transformations.