scholarly journals Perseveration Found in a Human Drawing Task: Six-Fingered Hands Drawn by Patients with Right Anterior Insula and Operculum Damage

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Chiharu Niki ◽  
Takashi Maruyama ◽  
Yoshihiro Muragaki ◽  
Takatsune Kumada
Keyword(s):  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Body Awareness ◽  
Drawing Task ◽  
Human Figure Drawing ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Insula Cortex ◽  
Drawing Tasks ◽  
The Right ◽  
Figure Drawing

Background. Perseveration has been observed in a number of behavioural contexts, including speaking, writing, and drawing. However, no previous report describes patients who show perseveration only for drawing a human figure.Objective. The present report describes a group of patients who show body awareness-related cognitive impairment during a human figure drawing task, a different presentation from previously described neuropsychological cases.Methods. Participants were 15 patients who had a frontal lobe brain tumour around the insula cortex of the right hemisphere and had subsequently undergone a neurosurgical resective operation. Participants were asked to draw a human figure in both “hands-down” and “hands-up” configurations.Results. Eight of the 15 patients drew a human figure with six fingers during the “hands-up” and the “hands-down” human figure drawing tasks (one patient drew eight fingers). A statistical analysis of potential lesion areas revealed damage to the right anterior frontal insula and operculum in this group of patients relative to the five-finger drawing group.Conclusions. Our findings reveal a newly described neuropsychological phenomenon that could reflect impairment in attention directed towards body representations.

Analysis of Emotional Indicators in Human Figure Drawings as Related to Self-Esteem

1973 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 795-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Prytula ◽  
Nancy Dunn Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Body Height ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Body ◽  
Drawing Task ◽  
Human Figure Drawing ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Emotional Indicators ◽  
Figure Drawings ◽  
Figure Drawing ◽  
Consistent Support

2 groups of 10- through 13-yr.-old children were separated for high and low self-esteem, and given a human figure-drawing task. Figures drawn were Man, Woman, Self, and Eskimo. Subsequently, the drawings were scored on six emotional indicators such as body height and width, area, erasures, transparencies, and omissions. The results do not offer consistent support for the body-image hypothesis as related to self-esteem. Ss did not differ in terms of drawn size of Self figure, nor did Ss high in self-esteem draw significantly larger figures across all drawings as compared with those low in self-esteem. Although the latter drew significantly more transparencies, no other conflict indicators were significant in comparing groups of Ss low and high in esteem.

scholarly journals Postprint: "What Does the DAP: IQ Measure?: Drawing Comparisons between Drawing Performance and Developmental Assessments"

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn L Rehrig
Keyword(s):  
Motor Skill ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Screening Tool ◽  
Fine Motor ◽  
Fine Motor Skill ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
Human Figure Drawing ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Drawing Tasks ◽  
Figure Drawing

Human figure drawing tasks like the Draw-A-Person (DAP) task have long been used to assess intelligence (Goodenough, 1926). This study investigates the skills tapped by drawing and the risk factors associated with poor drawing. Self-portraits of 345 preschool children were scored by raters trained in using the DAP:IQ rubric (Reynolds & Hickman, 2004). Analyses of children’s fine motor, gross motor, social, cognitive, and language skills revealed that only fine motor skill was an independent predictor of DAP:IQ scores. Being male and having a low birth weight were associated with lower DAP:IQ scores. These findings suggest that, although the DAP:IQ may not be a valid measure of cognitive ability, it may be a useful screening tool for fine motor disturbances in at-risk children, such as boys who were born at low birth weights. Furthermore, researchers who use human figure drawing tasks to measure intelligence should measure fine motor skill in addition to intelligence.

Visual spatial gnosis and visual constructive activity in patients before and after embolization of intracranial aneurysms

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Vadim G. Postnov ◽  
Evgeny A. Levin ◽  
Kirill Yu. Orlov ◽  
Roman S. Kiselev
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Flow Diverter ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Postoperative Changes ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
The Right ◽  
Figure Drawing

<p><strong>Aim.</strong> The study was aimed at examining visual spatial gnosis and visual constructive activity in patients with cerebral aneurysms of anterior circulation before and after endovascular embolization with flow-diverter stents.</p><p><strong>Methods.</strong> Nineteen patients were examined before and after embolization of aneurysms. Patients were asked to perform 5 tests: determining the time on an “empty” dial (without numbers); setting the clock hands on an “empty” dial for the given time; drawing a human figure using the left and right hands; copying the picture of a house from the sample; copying from memory the Rey–Taylor and the Rey–Osterrieth complex figures.</p><p><strong>Results.</strong> Group differences between single measures obtained before and after the surgery were not statistically significant in any of the tests. At the same time, dependency on the hand used for drawing was nearly significant for postoperative changes in human figure drawing quality: the quality of figures drawn using the right hand became on average better after surgery, while the figures drawn using the left hand got worse. Postoperative individual changes demonstrated a “mosaic” pattern for the whole set of the tests, i.e. in most patients the results improved in some test(s) but degraded in other(s) and patterns of these changes differed between the patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusion.</strong> Postoperative changes in visual spatial gnosis and visual constructive activity are of a “mosaic” nature, supposedly due to multiple brain microlesions without certain localizations. At the same time, the differences between changes in the quality of human figures drawn using the right and left hands could be a sign of relative prevalence of the right hemisphere lesions. But in general, there were no significant postoperative changes in the brain integrative activity within the visual-spatial modality after endovascular aneurysm surgery with flow-diverter stents.</p><p>Received 13 March 2018. Revised 17 April 2018. Accepted 20 April 2018.</p><p><strong>Funding:</strong> The study did not have sponsorship.</p><p><strong>Conflict of interest:</strong> The authors declare no conflict of interest.</p><p><strong>Author contributions</strong><br />Conception and study design: V.G. Postnov, K.Yu. Orlov<br />Data collection: V.G. Postnov, R.S. Kiselev<br />Data analysis: V.G. Postnov, E.A. Levin<br />Drafting the article: V.G. Postnov, E.A. Levin, R.S. Kiselev<br />Final approval of the version to be published: V.G. Postnov, E.A. Levin, K.Yu. Orlov, R.S. Kiselev<br /><br /></p>

The short human figure drawing scale for evaluation of suspect cognitive dysfunction in old age

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjerstin Ericsson ◽  
Pernilla Hillerås ◽  
Karin Holmén ◽  
Anthony Jorm ◽  
Lars G. Forssell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Cognitive Dysfunction ◽  
Human Figure Drawing ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Figure Drawing

Human Figure Drawing Tests

2018 ◽  
pp. 1743-1746
Author(s):  
Carter M. Cunningham ◽  
Ida Sue Baron
Keyword(s):  
Human Figure Drawing ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Figure Drawing

Human Figure Drawing Tests

2013 ◽  
pp. 1519-1523
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Woods ◽  
Matthew R. Capriotti ◽  
Madison Pilato ◽  
Carolyn A. Doyle ◽  
Christopher J. McDougle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Figure Drawing ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Figure Drawing

scholarly journals Self-Attitude and Body Image Satisfaction in Women with Alopecia at Different Stages of Chemotherapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-195
Author(s):  
A.G. Faustova ◽  
I.S. Vinogradova
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body Image Satisfaction ◽  
Projective Technique ◽  
Human Figure Drawing ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Figure Drawing ◽  
Experimental Group

Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures used in various oncological diseases are often accompanied by the unwanted and uncontrolled appearance defects. The presence of an acquired visible difference is a significant source of stress, which is often ignored. The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between self-attitude and body image satisfaction in women with alopecia undergoing chemotherapy for cancer of the reproductive system. The study involved 20 women (mean age 52,15 years) without alopecia who start a course of chemotherapy treatment, and 20 women (mean age 51,55 years) with alopecia provoked by 10-40 courses of chemotherapy. An empirical study was conducted at the Ryazan Regional Clinical Oncology Center. Respondents were asked to fill out the Scale for assessing the level of satisfaction with the own body (O.A. Skugarevsky), the Self-Attitude Questionnaire (S.R. Pantileev), and to perform the projective technique “Human Figure Drawing” (K. Machover, F. Goodenough). Based on the obtained empirical data, specific regression models were revealed for each sample, demonstrating the dependence of self-attitude on the self-assessment of various components of the body image. In the experimental group of patients without alopecia, an adaptive level of self-acceptance is underlied by the high self-esteem of the external appearance of the chest (p=0,028), ears (p=0,039), and hair (p=0,017). Self-attachment among respondents in this group is determined by self-esteem of the abdomen (p=0,037). In the experimental group of patients with alopecia, other components of self-attitude were the most significant. The level of self-accusation is determined by the self-esteem of the pelvic region (p=0,048), ears (p=0,043), and hair (p=0,047). The reflected Self-attitude is determined to self-esteem of the chest (p=0,029), back (p=0,032), and arms (p=0,027). The patterns revealed in each sample are confirmed by the results of the projective technique “Human Figure Drawing”. Women with cancer of the reproductive organs, both before and after chemotherapy, mainly pay attention to those components of the body image that are associated with femininity and physical attractiveness, as well as those that undergo severe changes in the process of radical treatment.

scholarly journals ADOLESCENCE, HIV AND HUMAN FIGURE DRAWING: PROJECTING EXPERIENCES

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-411
Author(s):  
Adriane Roso› ◽  
Vanessa Limana Berni ◽  
Nathiele Berger Almeida ◽  
Maria Eduarda Freitas Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Human Figure Drawing ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Figure Drawing
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