This study drew upon Kress and Van Leeuwen’s (2006, [1996]) visual grammar and Van Leeuwen’s (2008) social semiotic model to interrogate ways through which social actors of different races are visually and textually represented in four award-winning English-learning software packages.  The analysis was based on narrative actional/reactional processes at the ideational level; mood, perspective, ...

Citation: Francuz P, Zaniewski I, Augustynowicz P, Kopiś N and Jankowski T (2018) Eye Movement Correlates of Expertise in Visual Arts. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 12:87. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00087 The aim of this study was to search for oculomotor correlates of expertise in visual arts, in particular with regard to paintings. Achieving this goal was possible by gathering data on eye movements of t...

In a digital world, which is evolving more and rapidly towards the culture of visual, acquiring visual literacy tools can be essential, especially for professional future university students. Art education manages to enhance development learning motivate student in their process analysis, discovery, understanding, assessment apprehension arts. The use image as teaching tool classroom favours pr...

Computers have recently emerged as commonplace on the scene in a record number of university art departments. This rapid change has created the need for new curriculum in the computer art discipline. In designing these courses I see three ideas that are paramount to any computer graphics curriculum in the visual arts. First, the courses and course work should focus on individual expression and ...

This paper explores the relations between drawing and its influences on architectural language. It uses as a resource the examination of the so-called futurist architecture, above all, the graphic production of Antonio Sant’Elia. The interest of the study lies in the verification that, despite the futurist movement having failed to erect a single work of architecture as representative of its id...

Background: Research on the effects of music education on cognitive abilities has generated increasing interest across the scientific community. Nonetheless, longitudinal studies investigating the effects of structured music education on cognitive sub-functions are still rare. Prime candidates for investigating a relationship between academic achievement and music education appear to be executi...