What does Mike, the self-taught painter, believe about artistic ability?
What is the main question the program seeks to answer about artists?
How does Dr. Rebecca Chamberlain describe the way artists process visual information?
What is one example Neil gives to illustrate how artists may behave differently?
What does the term "trainable" mean in the context of the program?
Michelangelo worked so hard he never took a bath, and that Jimi Hendrix once set fire to his guitar on stage
They take a more global approach, making bigger saccades & shorter fixations, which allows them to get a gist-level view of what they´re observing
It wants to reveal whether artists’ brains are different from those of non-artists
Artistic skills is not something you are born with, but rather something that can be learned and trained
A skill, such as painting, can be taught or learned, rather than being an innate ability
processing
tips
blown away
trainable
child prodigy
gist
useful pieces of advice about how to do something
general, overall understanding of something, without the detail
capable of being taught or trained
very impressed or pleasantly surprised by something
making sense of the information your brain receives about the external world
a young child with very great talent and ability in something