Dr Rebecca Chamberlain

Drawing as a means to characterize memory and cognition Bainbridge, Wilma A.; Chamberlain, Rebecca; Wammes, Jeffrey and Fan, Judith. E.. 2025. Drawing as a means to characterize memory and cognition. Memory & Cognition, 53(1), pp. 1-5. ISSN 0090-502X

Room to Breathe: Testing the efficacy of mindful breathing and mindful design in enhancing museum experiences Igdalova, Aleksandra; Humphries, Stacey and Chamberlain, Rebecca. 2025. Room to Breathe: Testing the efficacy of mindful breathing and mindful design in enhancing museum experiences. Journal of Positive Psychology, 20(6), pp. 932-949. ISSN 1743-9760

Slow Looking at Still Art: The Effect of Manipulating Audio Context and Image Category on Mood and Engagement During an Online Slow Looking Exercise Igdalova, Aleksandra and Chamberlain, Rebecca. 2025. Slow Looking at Still Art: The Effect of Manipulating Audio Context and Image Category on Mood and Engagement During an Online Slow Looking Exercise. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 19(3), pp. 522-534. ISSN 1931-3896

The visual language of pain: the role of rendering style and pain type in aesthetic and empathetic appraisals of painful images Graywill, Kelsey and Chamberlain, Rebecca. 2024. The visual language of pain: the role of rendering style and pain type in aesthetic and empathetic appraisals of painful images. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, ISSN 1931-3896

How material sensory properties and individual differences influence the haptic aesthetic appeal of visually presented stimuli Campagna, Marella and Chamberlain, Rebecca. 2024. How material sensory properties and individual differences influence the haptic aesthetic appeal of visually presented stimuli. Scientific Reports, 14, 13690. ISSN 2045-2322

Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally Drake, Jennifer; Riccio, A; Chamberlain, Rebecca and Kozbelt, Aaron. 2024. Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 18(3), pp. 357-371. ISSN 1931-3896

Drawing as a versatile cognitive tool Fan, Judith. E.; Bainbridge, Wilma. A.; Chamberlain, Rebecca and Wammes, Jeffrey. D.. 2023. Drawing as a versatile cognitive tool. Nature Reviews Psychology, 2(9), pp. 556-568. ISSN 2731-0574

Global Saccadic Eye Movements Characterise Artists’ Visual Attention While Drawing Park, Suhyun; Williams, Louis and Chamberlain, Rebecca. 2022. Global Saccadic Eye Movements Characterise Artists’ Visual Attention While Drawing. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 40(2), pp. 228-244. ISSN 0276-2374

On the etiology of aesthetic chills: a behavioral genetic study Bignardi, Giacomo; Chamberlain, Rebecca; Kevenaar, Sofieke T; Tamimy, Zenab and Boomsma, Dorret I. 2022. On the etiology of aesthetic chills: a behavioral genetic study. Scientific Reports, 12, 3247. ISSN 2045-2322

A dot that went for a walk: People prefer lines drawn with human-like kinematics Chamberlain, Rebecca; Orgs, Guido; Mayer, Veronika; Chana, Kirren; Berio, Daniel and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2022. A dot that went for a walk: People prefer lines drawn with human-like kinematics. British Journal of Psychology, 113(1), pp. 105-130. ISSN 0007-1269

Aesthetics of graffiti: Comparison to text-based and pictorial artforms Chamberlain, Rebecca; Mullin, Caitlin; Berio, Daniel; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Wagemans, Johan. 2022. Aesthetics of graffiti: Comparison to text-based and pictorial artforms. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 40(1), pp. 21-36. ISSN 0276-2374

Slow Looking at Slow Art: the Work of Pierre Bonnard Chamberlain, Rebecca and Pepperell, Robert. 2021. Slow Looking at Slow Art: the Work of Pierre Bonnard. Leonardo, 54(6), pp. 615-618. ISSN 0024-094X

Learning to See by Learning to Draw: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship Between Representational Drawing Training and Visuospatial Skill Chamberlain, Rebecca; Kozbelt, Aaron; Drake, Jennifer and Wagemans, Johan. 2021. Learning to See by Learning to Draw: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship Between Representational Drawing Training and Visuospatial Skill. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15(1), pp. 76-90. ISSN 1931-3896

Artists as experts in visual cognition: An update Chamberlain, Rebecca; Drake, Jennifer; Kozbelt, Aaron; Hickman, Rachel; Siev, Joseph and Wagemans, Johan. 2019. Artists as experts in visual cognition: An update. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13(1), pp. 58-73. ISSN 1931-3896

Drawing as a Window onto Expertise Chamberlain, Rebecca. 2018. Drawing as a Window onto Expertise. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(6), pp. 501-507. ISSN 0963-7214

Meta-analytic findings reveal lower means but higher variances in visuo-spatial ability in dyslexia Chamberlain, Rebecca; Brunswick, Nicola; Siev, Joseph and McManus, I. C.. 2018. Meta-analytic findings reveal lower means but higher variances in visuo-spatial ability in dyslexia. British Journal of Psychology, 109(4), pp. 897-916. ISSN 0007-1269

Superior disembedding in children with ASD: New tests using abstract, meaningful, and 3D contexts van der Hallen, Ruth; Chamberlain, Rebecca; De-Wit, Lee and Wagemans, Johan. 2018. Superior disembedding in children with ASD: New tests using abstract, meaningful, and 3D contexts. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48(7), pp. 2478-2489. ISSN 0162-3257

Putting the Art in Artificial: Aesthetic Responses to Computer-generated Art Chamberlain, Rebecca; Mullin, Caitlin; Scheerlinck, Bram and Wagemans, Johan. 2018. Putting the Art in Artificial: Aesthetic Responses to Computer-generated Art. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 12(2), pp. 177-192. ISSN 1931-3896

Perceptual flexibility is coupled with reduced executive inhibition in students of the visual arts Chamberlain, Rebecca; Swinnen, Lena; Heeren, Sarah and Wagemans, Johan. 2018. Perceptual flexibility is coupled with reduced executive inhibition in students of the visual arts. British Journal of Psychology, 109(2), pp. 244-258. ISSN 0007-1269

The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): measuring perception, intelligence or executive function? Huygelier, Hanne; van der Hallen, Ruth; Wagemans, Johan; De-Wit, Lee and Chamberlain, Rebecca. 2018. The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): measuring perception, intelligence or executive function? PeerJ,

Local-global processing bias is not a unitary individual difference in visual processing Chamberlain, Rebecca; van der Hallen, Ruth; Huygelier, Hanne; Van de Cruys, Sander and Wagemans, Johan. 2017. Local-global processing bias is not a unitary individual difference in visual processing. Vision Research, 141, pp. 247-257. ISSN 0042-6989

Tuning in to art: A predictive processing account of negative emotion in art (commentary) Van de Cruys, Sander; Chamberlain, Rebecca and Wagemans, Johan. 2017. Tuning in to art: A predictive processing account of negative emotion in art (commentary). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e377. ISSN 0140-525X

Developing The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): Testing the stimulus features that influence embedding De-Wit, Lee; Huygelier, Hanne; van der Hallen, Ruth; Chamberlain, Rebecca and Wagemans, Johan. 2017. Developing The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): Testing the stimulus features that influence embedding. PeerJ, 5, e2862.

The genesis of errors in drawing Chamberlain, Rebecca and Wagemans, Johan. 2016. The genesis of errors in drawing. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 65, pp. 195-207. ISSN 0149-7634

Visual arts training is linked to flexible attention to local and global levels of visual stimuli Chamberlain, Rebecca and Wagemans, Johan. 2015. Visual arts training is linked to flexible attention to local and global levels of visual stimuli. Acta Psychologica, 161, pp. 185-197. ISSN 0001-6918

Scratching the surface: Practice, personality, approaches to learning and the acquisition of high level representational drawing skill Chamberlain, Rebecca; McManus, I. C.; Brunswick, Nicola; Rankin, Qona and Riley, Howard. 2015. Scratching the surface: Practice, personality, approaches to learning and the acquisition of high level representational drawing skill. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 9(4), pp. 451-462. ISSN 1931-3896

Commonalities for Numerical and Continuous Quantity Skills at Temporo-parietal Junction. Cappelletti, Marinella; Chamberlain, Rebecca; Freemana, Elliot D.; Kanai, Ryota; Butterworth, Brian; Price, Cathy J. and Rees, Geraint. 2014. Commonalities for Numerical and Continuous Quantity Skills at Temporo-parietal Junction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(5), pp. 986-999. ISSN 0898-929X

Drawing on the right side of the brain: a voxel-based morphometry analysis of observational drawing Chamberlain, Rebecca; McManus, I. C.; Brunswick, Nicola; Rankin, Qona; Riley, Howard and Kanai, Ryota. 2014. Drawing on the right side of the brain: a voxel-based morphometry analysis of observational drawing. NeuroImage, 96(1), pp. 167-173. ISSN 1053-8119

Cain’s House Revisited and Revived: Extending Theory and Methodology for Quantifying Drawing Accuracy Chamberlain, Rebecca; McManus, I. C.; Riley, Howard; Rankin, Qona and Brunswick, Nicola. 2014. Cain’s House Revisited and Revived: Extending Theory and Methodology for Quantifying Drawing Accuracy. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 8(2), pp. 152-167. ISSN 1931-3896

Local processing enhancements in superior observational drawing are due to enhanced perceptual functioning, not weak central coherence Chamberlain, Rebecca; McManus, I. C.; Riley, Howard; Rankin, Qona and Brunswick, Nicola. 2013. Local processing enhancements in superior observational drawing are due to enhanced perceptual functioning, not weak central coherence. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(7), pp. 1448-1466. ISSN 1747-0218

Does shape constancy relate to drawing accuracy? Two failures to replicate McManus, I. C.; Loo, Phik-Wern; Chamberlain, Rebecca; Riley, Howard and Brunswick, Nicola. 2011. Does shape constancy relate to drawing accuracy? Two failures to replicate. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 29(2), pp. 191-208. ISSN 0276-2374

Art students who cannot draw: Exploring the relations between drawing ability, visual memory, accuracy of copying and dyslexia McManus, I. C.; Chamberlain, Rebecca; Loo, Phik-Wern; Rankin, Qona; Riley, Howard and Brunswick, Nicola. 2010. Art students who cannot draw: Exploring the relations between drawing ability, visual memory, accuracy of copying and dyslexia. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, 4(1), pp. 18-30. ISSN 1931-3896

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