Does Regular Visual Art Training Enhance Visual Memory Capacity and Enable Young Adults to Outperform in Face Recognition?

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Does Regular Visual Art Training Enhance Visual Memory Capacity and Enable Young Adults to Outperform in Face Recognition?

Zhuzhuoyu Zhou 1*
  • 1 University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK    
  • *corresponding author zhouzhuzhuoyu@163.com
Published on 1 March 2023 | https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/2/2022400
LNEP Vol.2
ISSN (Print): 2753-7056
ISSN (Online): 2753-7048
ISBN (Print): 978-1-915371-07-2
ISBN (Online): 978-1-915371-08-9

Abstract

Specialists usually tend to noticeably outperform others who are novices in that field. Numerous studies suggest that portrait artists who are experts in outlining and recognizing human faces develop more advanced visual working memory. Whether systematic artistic training could strengthen a person’s visual memory ability particularly in face memory is therefore worth investigating. Thus, in an attempt to find the correlation between regular artistic training and visual working memory in face memory ability, 22 random samples were collected twice to complete a self-evaluation survey and a set of face memory test. The outcome indicates no statistically significant difference of face memory ability between regularly trained arts students and novices. However, due to several practical concerns, it’s worthwhile to conduct further studies to eliminate these issues and hence give evidence to support the study result.

Keywords:

super-recognizers, visual working memory., regular artistic training, face memory ability, face recognition

Zhou,Z. (2023). Does Regular Visual Art Training Enhance Visual Memory Capacity and Enable Young Adults to Outperform in Face Recognition?. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,2,619-627.
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References

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Zhou,Z. (2023). Does Regular Visual Art Training Enhance Visual Memory Capacity and Enable Young Adults to Outperform in Face Recognition?. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,2,619-627.

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References

[1]. Devue, C. &Barsics, C. (2016) Outlining face processing skills of portrait artists: Perceptual experience with face predicts performance.

[2]. Vision Research,127, 92-103.

[3]. Kozbelt,A., Seidel, A., Elbassiouny, A., Mark, Y., Owen, D. R. (2010) Visual selection contributes to artists’ advantages in realistic drawing. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 4(2), 93-102

[4]. Miall, R.C., Tchalenko, J.(2001) A painter's eye movements: A study of eye and hand movement during portrait drawing. Leonardo, 34 (1) (2001), pp. 35-40

[5]. Tchalenko J, Dempere-Marco L, Hu XP, Yang GZ(2003). Eye movement and voluntary control in portrait drawing. J. Hyona, R. Radach, H. Deubel (Eds.), The Mind’s eye: Cognitive and applied aspects of eye movement research, Elsevier, Amsterdam (2003), pp. 705-727

[6]. Tree,J.J., Horry, R., Riley, H., Wilmer,J. B. (2017). Are portrait artists superior face recognizers? Limited impact of adult experience on face recognition ability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(4):667–676.

[7]. Dolzycka, D., Herzmann, G., Sommer, W., Wilhelm, O.(2014) Can Training Enhance Face Cognition Abilities in Middle- Aged Adults? PLoS ONE 9(3): e90249. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0090249

[8]. Zhou, G., Cheng,Z., Zhang, X. (2012) Smaller holistic processing of faces associated with face drawing experience. Psychon Bull Rev, 19, 157-162.

[9]. Bobak A.K., Mileva V.R., Hancock P.J.B. (2019) Facing the facts: Naive participants have only moderate insight into their face recognition and face perception abilities, Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 72(4):872-881.

[10]. Xu, B.Y., Tanaka, J.W. (2014) Teaching Children with Autism to Recognize Faces

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[12]. Stelter, M., Degner, J.(2018) Investigating the other-race effect in working memory. Br. J. Psychol,109, PP.777–798.

[13]. Bobak A.K., Mileva V.R., Hancock P.J.B. (2019) Facing the facts: Naive participants have only moderate insight into their face recognition and face perception abilities, Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 72(4):872-881.

[14]. Pauls, F., Petermann, F., Lepach, A.C. (2013) Gender differences in episodic memory and visual working memory including the effects of age. Memory., 21(7):857-74.

[15]. Vogt, S., Magnussen, S. (2007) Expertise in pictorial perception: eye-movement patterns and visual memory in artists and laymen . Perception, 2007;36(1):91-100.

[16]. Vogt, S., Magnussen, S. (2007) Expertise in pictorial perception: eye-movement patterns and visual memory in artists and laymen . Perception, 2007;36(1):91-100.

[17]. Cabeza, R. & Kato, T. (2000) Features are also important: Contributions of featural and configural processing to face recognition. Psychological Science, 11, 429–433.