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Artists and architects think differently compared to other people - 香港六合彩中特网 study
Architects, painters and sculptors conceive of spaces in different ways from other people and from each other, finds a new study by 香港六合彩中特网 and Bangor University researchers. When asked to talk about images of places, painters are more likely to describe the depicted space as a two-dimensional image, while architects are more likely to focus on paths and the boundaries of the space.
For the study, 听the researchers brought in 16 people from each of the three professions 鈥� they all had at least eight years of experience and included Sir Anthony Gormley 鈥� alongside 16 participants without any relevant background, who acted as controls. The participants were presented with a Google Street view image, a painting of St. Peter鈥檚 Basilica, and a computer-generated surreal scene. They had to describe the environment, explain how they would explore the space, and suggest changes to the environment in the image.
The researchers categorised elements of the responses for both qualitative and quantitative analyses using a novel technique called Cognitive Discourse Analysis, designed to highlight aspects of thought that underlie linguistic choices, beyond what speakers are consciously aware of.
The painters tended to shift between describing the scene as a 3D space or as a 2D image. Architects were more likely to describe barriers and boundaries of the space, and used more dynamic terms, while sculptors鈥� responses were between the two. Painters and architects also differed in how they described the furthest point of the space, as painters called it the 鈥榖ack鈥� and architects called it the 鈥榚nd.鈥� The control participants gave less elaborate responses, which the authors say went beyond just a lack of expert terminology.
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