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221006 6min english artistic brain

6 Minute English
 
©British Broadcasting Corporation 2022 
bbclearningenglish.com 
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a) five years old? 
b) ten years old? or, 
c) fifteen years old? 
Sam 
I’ll guess he was a) five years old. 
Neil 
OK, Sam. I’ll reveal the answer later in the programme. If artists’ brains are 
different, it could mean they see the world in unusual ways. Dr Rebecca 
Chamberlain is a researcher in the neuroscience of art. She investigates how artists 
see the objects they are drawing by measuring saccades – the rapid movements 
our eyes make as they jump from one thing to another. Here she shares her 
findings with BBC World Service programme, CrowdScience. 
Rebecca Chamberlain 
Artists seem to be processing the visual world in a different way to non-artists, 
particularly when they’re drawing. The artist actually takes a more global 
approach to looking – so they make bigger saccades, bigger eye movements, and 
shorter fixations on the image. So, it’s almost like they’re getting much more of a 
kind of gist level view of the thing they’re looking at. 
Sam 
Rebecca’s experiments seem to confirm that artists’ brains work differently 
because of their processing of the visual world – the way their brains make sense 
of information. Interestingly, processing also means the act of developing pictures 
from photographic film. 
Neil 
When they draw, artists make bigger, quicker eye movements so they are able to 
see the whole picture, something also known as the gist – the overall, general 
impression of something without focussing on the details. If you ‘get the gist’ of 
what someone is saying, you understand the overall meaning of what they say, but 
not the details. 
Sam 
The second expert to answer our question about the artistic brain is Mike, a BBC 
World Service listener from Malawi. Mike is a self-taught painter who creates 
large, colourful pictures in his studio. According to him, artistic ability isn’t 
something you’re born with - it can be learned, as he explained to BBC World 
Service’s, CrowdScience. 



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