Visual free recall and recognition in art students and laypeople.

ABSTRACT: Artists and laypeople differ in their ability to create drawings. Previous research has shown that artists have improved memory performance during drawing; however, it is unclear whether they have better visual memory after the drawing is finished. In this paper, we focused on the question of differences in visual memory between art students and the general population in two studies. In Study 1, both groups studied a set of images and later drew them in a surprise visual recall test. In Study 2, the drawings from Study 1 were evaluated by a different set of raters based on their drawing quality and similarity to the original image to link drawing evaluations with memory performance for both groups. We found that both groups showed comparable visual recognition memory performance; however,

SUBMITTER: Dechterenko F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11789472 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature