Comments on: Artistically Challenged Man Becomes “Michelangelo” After Brain Surgery

By: Christina Viering

Christina Viering — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:34:17 +0000

How cool to renew a life after in this manner!

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By: Jon-Pierre Gentil

Jon-Pierre Gentil — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:49:45 +0000

The irony of your statement is astounding, K.Madison. “Don’t be narrow minded, it’s clearly a gift of God, it can’t possibly be anything else! Have faith instead of negativity, because the thing that is wrong with this country is that we have too many people with opinions that differ from mine!”

Nevertheless, it is fascinating how the brain can adapt and in doing so, remaps functional areas that used to exist into new parts of the brain that have different talents. While I am not a neuroscience major, I believe that the brain is an amazing thing, and that a lot of the theorized “wasted” space in the brain is there for redundancy in case of failure.

Now I just need an excuse to have brain surgery….. *wink*

By: K. Madison

K. Madison — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:54:08 +0000

PS. Sorry, meant: Never had any training at the age of 3

By: K. Madison

K. Madison — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:53:16 +0000

I totally disagree that “anyone can do it.” I have been a fine artist all of my life, never had any training and started drawing as an adult would at the age of 3. God gave me this diversified talent. It’s a shame that some are so narrow minded. I praise this gentleman for his accomplishments no matter how he came about it. Obviously God did bless him in more than one way. Have faith people. Have faith instead of negativity. This is what is wrong with our country.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:45:20 +0000

Being able to draw realistically is really just getting around our interpretation of what we see, rather than attempting to draw what we think is there. Anyone can do learn to do it with a little training. Not to say that some don’t have more aptitude than others, but the idea that you need to be born with the ability to draw is a myth.

It’s possible that the brain injury affected his ability to interpret visual information the way he normally would. It’s like the ‘upside-down image’ trick used by drawing courses — remove one’s ability to recognize what they are drawing, and they’ll produce something much more realistic.

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The Third Bit » Blog Archive » Brains Are Weird — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:19:23 +0000

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