Matthew Mackisack
Biographic Data
| ID | 5079735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Mackisack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackisack |
| SIGNATURE | MACKISACK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Health Research, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5104-4706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Plural Imagination: Diversity in Mind and Making
The experience of visual mental imagery—seeing in the mind’s eye—varies widely between individuals, but perhaps because we tend to assume our own way of thinking to be everyone’s, how this crucial variation impacts art practice, and indeed art history, has barely been addressed. We seek to correct this omission by pursuing the implications of how artists with aphantasia (the absence of mental imagery) and hyperphantasia (imagery of extreme vividn…
Phantasia–The psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery vividness extremes
Differential Imagery Experience and Ut Pictura Poesis in the 18th-century
That the ability to visualise, to see with ‘the mind's eye’, varies between individuals has been known since Francis Galton reported on the results of his ‘Breakfast Table’ questionnaire in 1880. Research in the ensuing years has supported what Galton's surveys suggested: that the vividness of the population's mental imagery lies across a spectrum, with small percentages at the extremes being bereft of imagery or visualising with near percept-lik…
Matthew Mackisack - Discoveries: Art, Science & Exploration [exposição]
Being a selection from all eight museums of the University of Cambridge, which concern everything from archaeology to zoology, the diversity of objects on display in Discoveries is remarkable. Cultural artefacts, fossils, western fine art, and scientific instruments, all sit alongside one another. The curators have – for the most part, very effectively – grouped the things into themed sections: “Objects”, “Inscriptions”, “Illuminations”, “Collect…
No prominent works on this page.
Matthew Mackisack - Discoveries: Art, Science & Exploration [exposição]
Being a selection from all eight museums of the University of Cambridge, which concern everything from archaeology to zoology, the diversity of objects on display in Discoveries is remarkable. Cultural artefacts, fossils, western fine art, and scientific instruments, all sit alongside one another. The curators have – for the most part, very effectively – grouped the things into themed sections: “Objects”, “Inscriptions”, “Illuminations”, “Collect…
Differential Imagery Experience and Ut Pictura Poesis in the 18th-century
That the ability to visualise, to see with ‘the mind's eye’, varies between individuals has been known since Francis Galton reported on the results of his ‘Breakfast Table’ questionnaire in 1880. Research in the ensuing years has supported what Galton's surveys suggested: that the vividness of the population's mental imagery lies across a spectrum, with small percentages at the extremes being bereft of imagery or visualising with near percept-lik…
Phantasia–The psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery vividness extremes
Plural Imagination: Diversity in Mind and Making
The experience of visual mental imagery—seeing in the mind’s eye—varies widely between individuals, but perhaps because we tend to assume our own way of thinking to be everyone’s, how this crucial variation impacts art practice, and indeed art history, has barely been addressed. We seek to correct this omission by pursuing the implications of how artists with aphantasia (the absence of mental imagery) and hyperphantasia (imagery of extreme vividn…
Art (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Mental image (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)