List of Figures

1.1 Schematic side view (lateral) of the left hemisphere showing the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes.

1.2 Diagrammatic lateral view of the left cortex showing theperi-Sylvian language areas in the left hemisphere.

2.1 A 19-year-old art student and professional artist with left hemisphere damage in the fronto-parietal region showed progressive improvement in her artistic expression in the six weeks that followed an accident (resulting in a depressed skull fracture) and surgery.

3.1 A cross-section of the eyeball.

3.2 A schematic diagram showing a top view of the two hemi-fields and visual pathways.

3.3 A schematic medial view of the cortex, showing the location of the lingual gyrus, fusiform gyrus, and precuneus.

3.4 When light enters the eye and reaches the retina, the projected image is inverted.

7.1 Different views of a cylinder.

7.2 Overlapping figures.

7.3 Rod-and-frame.

7.4 Global local perception.

7.5 The Necker cube.

7.6 Kohs blocks.

7.7 Being able to complete these figures in the mind’s eye taps right hemisphere specialization.

7.8 Convergent railroad lines and linear perspective, taking into account the way things look at a distance versus close up, is what interested artists from the very start of the Renaissance in Italy.