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Cognition and art

  Does education in the arts transfer to seemingly unrelated cognitive abilities? Researchers are finding evidence that it does. Michael Posner argues that when children find an art form that sustains their interest, the subsequent strengthening of their brains’ attention networks can improve cognition more broadly http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23206

sculpture quiz

  When a sculptor is concerned mainly with “mass” he uses steel solids wire concrete bronze Another name for “space” in sculpture is scientitfic holes depth void size Watruba, Bill and Frink tend to use mass light space transparency lightness Whereas Calder, Smith and Uhlman use mass light space transparency lightness New sculptural ideas have …

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