Are artistic brains different?
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Artists can conjure up people, cities, landscapes and entire worlds using just a pencil or a paintbrush. But some of us struggle to draw simple stick figures or a circle that\\u2019s round. CrowdScience listener Myck is a fine artist from Malawi, and he\\u2019s been wondering if there\\u2019s something special about his brain.
Myck takes Marnie Chesterton on a tour of his studio, where he paints onto huge canvases sewn from offcuts of local fabric. He\\u2019s a self-taught artist and he\\u2019s convinced he sees things differently to other people. So where does that all come from? Do artists have different brains from non-artists? And what is it that makes someone a creative person, while others are not?
With the help of a jigsaw puzzle, a large metal donut, a swimming cap covered in electrodes and and a really boring brick, Marnie probes the brains of people working to find answers to those questions. She\\u2019ll be learning about how we don\\u2019t really see what we think we see, why creative people\\u2019s brains are like private aeroplanes, and how daydreaming can be a full time job.
Contributors:\\nRebecca Chamberlain, Goldsmiths University of London\\nRobert Pepperell, Cardiff School of Art\\nAriana Anderson, UCLA\\nDarya Zabelina, University of Arkansas
Presented by Marnie Chesterton\\nProduced by Ben Motley for the BBC World Service
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