“Drawing and the Brain,” a symposium gathering artists, architects, and scientists convenes to discuss the primacy of the sketch as the creative tool of invention and discovery in architecture. The ...

In a study by Miall, Gowen and Tchalenko published by Elsevier, in the March issue of Cortex, a brain scanner was used to record the brain's activity in each stage of the process of drawing faces. The ...

As we get older, our memory really does get worse. It can be hard in our private lives and professional ones. But new research from the University of Waterloo has discovered a compelling fix: By ...

What does your brain look like? You might be picturing a photograph of a lumpy wrinkly pink thing. Or maybe you’re imagining something more abstract—a collection of ideas. Now think—what would you put ...

In 1979, Betty Edwards published the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which remains the preeminent book on the subject of drawing for beginners. In the book, Edwards argues that there are ...

Scientists used a brain scanner to record the brain's activity in each stage of the process of drawing faces. The researchers found that the captured visual information is stored as a series of ...