Experiment #2
Visual to Visual Connections
Artists think in visual to visual connections in their sketchbooks, three dimensional models, and in the developing of final artworks.
This second experiment with a "split brain" subject, as reported by Dr. Roger Sperry, shows the capacity of the right hemisphere to think in these visual to visual ways.
In this experiment, as in the key/case experiment, the subject is flashed stimuli on a rear projection screen. No alphabetical symbols are shown this time on the screen, however. Only a configuration of lines which would be recognized by any adult as a symbol for a spoon is shown. This configuration of lines is flashed only in the left visual field and therefore to the right side of the brain, as shown in the accompanying illustration.
In this experiment the subject cannot say what he has seen, in sequential words, although he clearly knows he has seen something. However, when reaching under the opaque platform with his left hand, the subject can tactilely identify the "correct" object, although it cannot be named until the spoon is withdrawn from under the platform and "seen" by the left hemisphere. A holistic to holistic visual and configurational thinking process characterizes the way the right hemisphere handles the information it receives.
The presence of a visual configuration to visual configuration language of thought is the basis for the application of brain functions to the teaching and learning of the visual arts.
Comparison of left and right brain functions.
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