Jackie Andrade of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth in the UK, wanted to know if doodling improves or hinders one’s attention to a primary task. To find out, she created a study in which 40 participants were asked to listen to a rambling telephone message about a planned birthday party. Participants [...]
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Doodling for Efficiency
Posted in Drawing, Reference, Special Articles & Interviews, tagged applied cognitive psychology, doodle, drawing on May 24, 2010 | Comments Off
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Posted in Reference, botanical illustration, general botany, tagged california, flora, Jepson Manual on October 12, 2009 | Comments Off
A Rare Botanical Legacy Essay by David Rains Wallace, Edited by Rick Bennett and Susan Calla (2009) $35, Hardcover In 1936, a chance meeting with Willis Linn Jepson led to a 10-year collaboration between the renowned California botanist, an amateur botanist named Ruby Van Deventer who was on a mission to document the flora of [...]
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