Bainbridge Wilma A, Chamberlain Rebecca, Wammes Jeffrey, Fan Judith E
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Neuroscience Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Mem Cognit. 2025 Jan;53(1):1-5. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01618-4.
As psychological research embraces more naturalistic questions and large-scale analytic methods, drawing has emerged as an exciting tool for studying cognition. Drawing provides rich information about how we view the world, ranging from largely veridical perceptual representations to abstracted meta-cognitive representations. Drawing also requires the integration of multiple processes (e.g., vision, memory, motor learning), and experience with drawing can have an impact on such processes. As a result, drawing presents several interesting cognitive questions, while also providing a way to gain insight into a multitude of others. This Special Issue features 25 cutting-edge studies utilizing drawing to reveal discoveries transversing fields in psychology. These diverse studies investigate drawing across children, young adults, older adults, and special populations such as individuals with blindness, anterograde amnesia, apraxia, and semantic dementia. These studies detail new discoveries about the mechanisms underlying memory, attention, mathematical reasoning, and other cognitive processes. They employ a range of methods including psychophysical experiments, deep learning, and neuroimaging. Finally, many of these studies cover topics about the impact of drawing as a process on other cognitive processes, including how drawing expertise impacts other processes like visual memory or spatial abilities. Overall, this collection of studies paves the way for an exciting future of drawing as a commonplace tool used by psychologists to understand complex phenomena.
随着心理学研究涉及更多自然主义问题和大规模分析方法，绘画已成为研究认知的一种令人兴奋的工具。绘画提供了关于我们如何看待世界的丰富信息，范围从基本如实的感知表征到抽象的元认知表征。绘画还需要整合多种过程（如视觉、记忆、运动学习），绘画经验会对这些过程产生影响。因此，绘画提出了几个有趣的认知问题，同时也提供了一种洞察许多其他问题的方法。本期特刊收录了25项前沿研究，利用绘画揭示横跨心理学各领域的发现。这些多样化的研究涵盖了儿童、年轻人、老年人以及特殊人群（如盲人、顺行性遗忘症患者、失用症患者和语义性痴呆患者）的绘画情况。这些研究详细阐述了关于记忆、注意力、数学推理和其他认知过程背后机制的新发现。它们采用了一系列方法，包括心理物理学实验、深度学习和神经成像。最后，这些研究中有许多涉及绘画过程对其他认知过程的影响这一主题，包括绘画专业技能如何影响视觉记忆或空间能力等其他过程。总体而言，这一系列研究为绘画成为心理学家用来理解复杂现象的常用工具的激动人心的未来铺平了道路。
