Drawing and the Non-Verbal Mind

Dr Christine Lange-Kuttner is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the London Metropolitan University. Dr Annie Vinter is Professor of Psychology at the Universite de Bourgogne, LEAD-CNRS, France.

• 1. Contemporary enquiries into a long-standing domain: drawing research Chris Lange-Küttner and Annie Vinter; Part I. Self, Symbols and Intention: 2. Understanding reflections of self and other objects Kim Bard; 3. Drawing production, drawing re-experience and drawing re-cognition Josephine Ross; 4. Style and other factors affecting children's recognition of their own drawings Robin N. Campbell, Pauline A. Duncan, Anita L. Harrison and Lynne C. Mathewson; 5. Children's understanding of the dual nature of pictures Richard Jolley; 6. Pictorial intention, action and interpretation Norman H. Freeman and Esther Adi-Japha; Part II. Syntax, Space Systems and Projection: 7. The interaction of biomechanical and cognitive constraints in the production of children's drawing Gregory Braswell and Karl Rosengren; 8. Graphic syntax and representational development Annie Vinter, Delphine Picard and Viviane Fernandes; 9. Spatial structures in children's drawings: how do they develop? Sergio Morra; 10. Figures in and out of context: absent, simple, complex and halved spatial fields Chris Lange-Küttner; 11. Spatial and symbolic codes in the development of three-dimensional graphic representation Maria A. Tallandini and Luisa Morassi; 12. On contours seen and contours drawn Jan B. Deręgowski; Part III. Aging, Blindness and Autism: 13. Benefits of graphic design expertise in old age: compensatory effects of a graphical lexicon? Ulman Lindenberger, Yvonne Brehmer, Reinhold Kliegl and Paul B. Baltes; 14. Drawing as a 'window' on deteriorating conceptual knowledge in neurodegenerative disease Karalyn Patterson and Sharon W. Erzinçlioğlu; 15. Drawings by a blind adult: orthogonals, parallels and convergence in two directions without T-junctions John M. Kennedy and Igor Juricevic; 16. Differences between individuals with and without autism in copying tasks: how knowledge interferes when drawing perspective Elizabeth Sheppard, Peter Mitchell and Danielle Ropar.