Ellen Winner

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According to Wikipedia, Ellen Winner is a psychologist and a professor at Boston College. She specializes in psychology of art. Winner graduated from the Putney School in 1965 and received a PhD in developmental psychology from Harvard University in 1978. She collaborated on Project Zero to conduct studies about the way people experience and perceive art. Winner noted how psychological explorations beginning in the realm of philosophy pertained to art.

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Ellen Winner's Published Works

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Musical Training Shapes Structural Brain Development (2009) (747)
Acquired `theory of mind' impairments following stroke (1999) (469)
The comprehension of metaphor in brain-damaged patients. (1977) (462)
Effects of Music Training on the Child's Brain and Cognitive Development (2005) (397)
The getting of wisdom: theory of mind in old age. (1998) (352)
Distinguishing Lies from Jokes: Theory of Mind Deficits and Discourse Interpretation in Right Hemisphere Brain-Damaged Patients (1998) (339)
The origins and ends of giftedness. (2000) (313)
Practicing a Musical Instrument in Childhood is Associated with Enhanced Verbal Ability and Nonverbal Reasoning (2008) (311)
The Point Of Words: Children's Understanding Of Metaphor And Irony (1990) (290)
Why not say it directly? The social functions of irony (1995) (282)
The Arts and Academic Achievement: What the Evidence Shows (2001) (269)
Enhancing Empathy and Theory of Mind (2012) (260)
Muting the Meaning A Social Function of Irony (1995) (250)
Mute those claims: No evidence (yet) for a causal link between arts study and academic achievement (2000) (245)
The Development of Metaphoric Understanding. (1976) (235)
Distinguishing irony from deception: Understanding the speaker's second-order intention (1991) (231)
Gifted Children: Myths And Realities (1996) (226)
Are there pre-existing neural, cognitive, or motoric markers for musical ability? (2005) (219)
Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts (1982) (207)
How children tell a lie from a joke: The role of second‐order mental state attributions (1995) (198)
The Effects of Musical Training on Structural Brain Development (2009) (197)
Dyslexia linked to talent: Global visual-spatial ability (2003) (178)
Art for Art's Sake?: The Impact of Arts Education (2013) (168)
Words Speak Louder Than Actions: Understanding Deliberately False Remarks. (1984) (156)
Children's understanding of the meaning and functions of verbal irony. (1996) (153)
"Metaphorical" Mapping in Human Infants (1981) (153)
New names for old things: the emergence of metaphoric language (1979) (146)
THE RELATION BETWEEN MUSIC AND PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING IN NORMAL-READING CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH DYSLEXIA (2008) (143)
Training‐induced Neuroplasticity in Young Children (2009) (139)
Understanding of Literal Truth, Ironic Criticism, and Deceptive Praise Following Childhood Head Injury (2001) (132)
Children's metaphoric productions and preferences (1975) (129)
Does studying the arts engender creative thinking? Evidence for near but not far transfer (2000) (127)
Obligatory Processing of the Literal Meaning of Ironic Utterances: Further Evidence (2000) (124)
Does Art Improve Mood? A Test of a Key Assumption Underlying Art Therapy (2005) (123)
Obligatory processing of literal and nonliteral meanings in verbal irony (1999) (111)
Dyslexia and Visual-Spatial Talents: Compensation vs Deficit Model (2001) (107)
Telling it as it isn't: Children's understanding of figurative language (1983) (107)
SAT scores of students who study the arts: What we can and cannot conclude about the association (2000) (102)
Short-term mood repair through art-making: Positive emotion is more effective than venting (2008) (102)
Misunderstanding metaphor: what's the problem? (1980) (101)
Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education. Second Edition. (2013) (99)
The Art of Children's Drawing (1988) (93)
Three-year-olds' understanding of mental states: the influence of trickery. (1993) (90)
Flow and Happiness in Later Life: An Investigation into the Role of Daily and Weekly Flow Experiences (2009) (90)
Giftedness: Current Theory and Research (2000) (86)
Can Adolescents With Williams Syndrome Tell the Difference Between Lies and Jokes? (2003) (84)
EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH INTELLIGENCE AND SCHOOLING (1997) (82)
Making Sense of Literal and Nonliteral Falsehood (1987) (82)
Metaphor and Thought: Metaphor and irony: Two levels of understanding (1993) (80)
Theory of mind and the right cerebral hemisphere: Refining the scope of impairment (2006) (74)
Inference of beliefs and emotions in patients with Alzheimer's disease. (2006) (73)
Children's conceptions of the arts. (1975) (73)
Relating Pitch Awareness to Phonemic Awareness in Children: Implications for Tone-Deafness and Dyslexia (2011) (73)
Art for our Sake School Arts Classes Matter More than Ever-But Not for the Reasons You Think (2008) (73)
Confronting Sadness Through Art-Making: Distraction Is More Beneficial Than Venting (2012) (73)
Teaching Cognitive Skill through Dance: Evidence for near but Not Far Transfer (2000) (69)
Short-Term Mood Repair Through Art: Effects of Medium and Strategy (2011) (68)
The Development of Metaphoric Competence: Implications for Humanistic Disciplines (1978) (67)
When 3‐year‐olds understand ignorance, false belief and representational change (1991) (66)
6 – First Intimations of Artistry1 (1982) (66)
Chapter 10 Attributing meaning to deliberately false utterances: The case of irony (1997) (59)
How Can Chinese Children Draw so Well (1989) (57)
Instruction in Visual Art: Can It Help Children Learn To Read?. (2000) (55)
Inference of mental states in patients with Alzheimer's disease (2004) (54)
Cerebral Lateralization and Theory of Mind (2000) (53)
Actors are Skilled in Theory of Mind but Not Empathy (2009) (52)
The Rage to Master: The Decisive Role of Talent in the Visual Arts (2013) (51)
Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Arts Education. (2007) (49)
Children's perception of ‘aesthetic’ properties of the arts: Domain‐specific or pan‐artistic? (1986) (49)
Seeing the Mind Behind the Art (2011) (48)
The Effects of Right-Hemisphere Brain Damage on Patients' Use of Terms of Personal Reference (1997) (48)
Visual Thinking: Art Students Have an Advantage in Geometric Reasoning (2011) (45)
Differentiating maturational and training influences on fMRI activation during music processing (2012) (45)
Imaging melody and rhythm processing in young children (2004) (44)
Training-mediated leftward asymmetries during music processing: A cross-sectional and longitudinal fMRI analysis (2013) (44)
Understanding Versus Discriminating Nonliteral Utterances: Evidence for a Dissociation (1995) (43)
‘Autistic’ Local Processing Bias also Found in Children Gifted in Realistic Drawing (2010) (43)
How children use drawing to regulate their emotions (2013) (43)
Children's understanding of nonliteral language (1988) (42)
Understanding the psychology in psychological metaphors (1981) (40)
The Arts as a Venue for Developmental Science: Realizing a Latent Opportunity. (2017) (38)
Perceiving What Paintings Express (1984) (37)
Does processing style affect recall of the Rey-Osterrieth or Taylor complex figures? (1991) (37)
Engagement in Role Play, Pretense, and Acting Classes Predict Advanced Theory of Mind Skill in Middle Childhood (2011) (36)
Living in Alternative and Inner Worlds: Early Signs of Acting Talent (2009) (36)
Realistic Drawing Talent in Typical Adults is Associated with the Same Kind of Local Processing Bias Found in Individuals with ASD (2011) (36)
When 3-year-olds pass the appearance--reality test. (1997) (33)
Spatial Abilities and Reading Deficits in Visual Art Students (1991) (32)
Development in the Arts: Drawing and Music (2007) (31)
Talents and Disorders - Relationships Among Handedness, Sex, and College Major (1995) (27)
Are Preschoolers' Renamings Intentional Category Violations?. (1984) (26)
Expressive Suppression and Acting Classes (2013) (26)
Autumn Leaves and Old Photographs: The Development of Metaphor Preferences. (1982) (25)
Do chimpanzees recognize photographs as representations of objects? (1979) (25)
Problems with the Seeing = = = Knowing Rule (2003) (25)
Dyslexia and Visual Spatial Talents: Are they Connected? (2004) (24)
Arts involvement predicts academic achievement only when the child has a musical instrument (2014) (24)
Heightened Incidence of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents Involved in the Arts (2013) (23)
No support for the claim that literary fiction uniquely and immediately improves theory of mind: A reply to Kidd and Castano's commentary on Panero et al. (2016). (2017) (23)
Engagement in philosophical dialogue facilitates children's reasoning about subjectivity. (2013) (23)
Studio Thinking: How Visual Arts Teaching Can Promote Disciplined Habits of Mind (2020) (22)
Precocious realists: perceptual and cognitive characteristics associated with drawing talent in non-autistic children (2009) (22)
A Study of Excellence in Arts Education. (2009) (22)
Visual thinking in arts education: Homage to Rudolf Arnheim. (2007) (21)
Music Training and Nonmusical Abilities: Introduction (2011) (20)
Beyond the Evidence Given: A Critical Commentary on Critical Links (2003) (19)
Do Mathematicians Have Above Average Musical Skill (2011) (19)
Giftedness vs. creativity in the visual arts (1997) (18)
Predicting Artistic Brilliance (2012) (18)
Visual-spatial thinking in geometry and the visual arts. (2016) (18)
Visual-spatial abilities in the art, maths and science majors: Effects of sex, family, handedness and spacial experience (1990) (17)
A New Lens on the Development of Social Cognition: The Study of Acting (2008) (16)
Measures of metaphor (1979) (15)
Reviewing Education and the Arts Project (REAP) (2000) (14)
Your kid could not have done that: Even untutored observers can discern intentionality and structure in abstract expressionist art (2015) (14)
Superior Visual Analysis and Imagery in an Autistic Child with Drawing Talent (2011) (13)
Fact, fiction, and fantasy in childhood (1979) (13)
On Training Sensitivity to Painting Styles (1975) (13)
11 – Artistry and Aphasia (1998) (13)
Studio Thinking from the Start: The K–8 Art Educator’s Handbook (2018) (12)
Is more time in general music class associated with stronger extra-musical outcomes in kindergarten? (2017) (12)
Examining Rhythm and Melody Processing in Young Children Using fMRI (2005) (12)
Giftedness in Non-Academic Domains: (2011) (11)
A Cross-sectional Study of Shared Attention by Children With Autism and Typically Developing Children in an Inclusive Preschool Setting (2016) (11)
Conceptions of Giftedness: Extreme Giftedness (2005) (11)
Skill at image generation: Handedness interacts with strategy preference for individuals majoring in spatial fields (1993) (11)
Giftedness and Egalitarianism in Education: A Zero Sum? (1998) (11)
MUSICAL ABILITY IN A NEW KEY: EXPLORING THE EXPRESSIVE EAR FOR MUSIC (1997) (11)
Toward broadening our understanding of giftedness: The spatial domain. (2009) (11)
ON GOING BEYOND THE LITERAL: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SENSITIVITY TO ARTISTIC SYMBOLS (1976) (11)
When 3-Year-Olds Pass the Appearance-Reality Test (1997) (10)
Can Young Children Distinguish Abstract Expressionist Art From Superficially Similar Works by Preschoolers and Animals? (2016) (10)
CHILDREN'S SENSITIVITY TO AESTHETIC PROPERTIES OF LINE DRAWINGS (1983) (10)
Distinguishing between Abstract Art by Artists vs. Children and Animals (2016) (9)
Exceptional artistic development: the role of visual thinking (1993) (9)
A study of repetition in aphasic patients (1978) (8)
Children's Creativity (2019) (8)
Children gifted in drawing (2013) (8)
Habits of Mind as a Framework for Assessment in Music Education (2019) (7)
Child Prodigies and Adult Genius: A Weak Link (2014) (7)
Sympathy for a Character's Plight: Sex Differences in Response to Theatre (2012) (6)
Does Studying the Arts Engender Creative Thinking (1999) (5)
Sight-over-sound judgments of music performances are replicable effects with limited interpretability (2018) (5)
Expressivist to the core: Metaaesthetic subjectivism is stable and robust (2020) (5)
Do actors possess traits associated with high hypnotizability (2016) (5)
Talent: Don't confuse necessity with sufficiency, or science with policy (1998) (5)
What Gaze Fixation and Pupil Dilation Can Tell Us About Perceived Differences Between Abstract Art by Artists Versus by Children and Animals (2015) (4)
The Development of Metaphoric Operations. Final Report. (1981) (4)
The Ontogenesis of Metaphor (2018) (4)
Looking at the Process: Examining Creative and Artistic Thinking in Fashion Designers on a Reality Television Show (2018) (4)
Truths About Beauty and Goodness: Disgust Affects Moral but Not Aesthetic Judgments. (2016) (4)
TEXAS ASSOCIATION FOR THE GIFTED AND TALENTED (2010) (4)
The impact of arts education (2013) (4)
Essentialist beliefs in aesthetic judgments of duplicate artworks. (2018) (4)
Giftedness (2000) (4)
Rating the Acting Moment: Exploring Characteristics for Realistic Portrayals of Characters (2021) (3)
The relationship between creativity and Studio Thinking (2011) (3)
Why Deliberate Practice is not Enough (2017) (3)
The Child as Visual Artist (2022) (2)
What Does It Take to Understand a Metaphor (1977) (2)
The puzzle of art. (1988) (2)
Extreme Drawing Realism in Childhood (2018) (2)
Editors' notes: Investigations of the imaginative realm (1979) (2)
Expression Versus Distraction (2018) (2)
Children’s Sensitivity to Stylistic Features in Literature (1983) (2)
Response to José Rosario@@@Response to Jose Rosario (1977) (1)
Becoming a Character: Dissociation in Conservatory Acting Students (2020) (1)
Commentary: What Drawings by Atypical Populations Can Tell Us. (1996) (1)
The Lives of Others (2018) (1)
Similar Paintings by Children , Chimps , Monkeys , and Elephants Seeing the Mind Behind the Art : People Can Distinguish Abstract Expressionist Paintings From Highly (2011) (1)
What Is Distinctive About Artistically Gifted Children? (2020) (1)
Data for: Expressivist to the Core: Metaaesthetic Subjectivism is Stable and Robust (2019) (0)
Detail Oriented: Deaf Adolescents Surpass Hearing Adolescents in Realistic Drawing: (541672013-053) (2014) (0)
Access to a musical instrument tops the list of predictors of academic achievement across SES: (640622012-001) (2013) (0)
Brain outcomes of arts education (2013) (0)
Don ' t throw out the baby with the bath water Bruce (2006) (0)
Who Makes Art and Why? (2018) (0)
“But My Kid Could Have Done That!” (2018) (0)
My Journey from the Humanities to Psychology (2020) (0)
Is It Good? Or Just Familiar? (2018) (0)
Musical Training Shapes Structural Brain Development Abbreviated title : Musical Brain Development (2008) (0)
IS SUBJECTIVE APPEARANCE ALTERED BY VERBAL INFORMATION? CHILDREN’S UNDERSTANDING OF COLORBLINDNESS (2005) (0)
Art works. (2018) (0)
Creativity outcomes of arts education (2013) (0)
Developmental Stages : Elementary Secondary Education : Figurative Language : Higher Education : * Imagery : * Language Development : * Language Processing : Language Pesearch : * Language Styles : * Metaphors : Perception : Preschool Education (2007) (0)
Color and Form (2018) (0)
Drawn to Pain (2018) (0)
International Trademark Treaties with Commentary (2005) (0)
Art Envisioning Test (2016) (0)
Feeling From Music (2018) (0)
associated with drawing talent in non-autistic children Precocious realists : perceptual and cognitive characteristics (2009) (0)
Too Easy to Be Good? (2018) (0)
Determining the markers of a preference for imaginary worlds fiction calls for comparisons across kinds of fiction readers and forms of exploration (2022) (0)
Misunderstanding Metaphor: Cognitive Problem or Pragmatic Problem?. (1978) (0)
Children Gifted in Drawing: Precocious Realists vs. Autism Spectrum Disorder. (2010) (0)
What does it takel . ' to understand a metaphor ? (2007) (0)
Silver Bullets (2018) (0)
Cognitive outcomes of theatre education (2013) (0)
Perennial Questions (2018) (0)
It is easy enough to think of examples of loose usage-in which (2017) (0)
Music training and nonmusical abilities : Introduction Authors : (2014) (0)
Artists Excel on Image Activation But Not Image Manipulation Tasks (2021) (0)
Cognitive outcomes of music education (2013) (0)
Cognitive outcomes of visual arts education (2013) (0)
An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse (2022) (0)
Molecular Role of IKD in Temperature Sensitivity (2009) (0)
Cognitive outcomes of multi-arts education (2013) (0)
Emotions in the Art Museum (2018) (0)
Can Pre-adolescents Produce Metamorphic Figures? A Training Study. (1975) (0)
Children Gifted in Drawing 1 Running Head: CHILDERN GIFTED IN DRAWING Children Gifted in Drawing: Underlying Perceptual Strengths (2010) (0)
Wordless Sounds (2018) (0)
Motivational outcomes of arts education (2013) (0)
Can This Be Art? (2018) (0)
THE SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION OF ANALOGIES BY GRADE SCHOOL CHILDREN (2007) (0)
Do the Arts in Education Enhance or Distract from Core Curriculum and Instruction (2012) (0)
Preaching to the Choir and Beyond (2022) (0)
Developmental Perspectives on Metaphor : A Special Issue of metaphor and Symbolic Activity (2017) (0)
Why arts education? Summary and conclusions (2013) (0)
Cognitive outcomes of dance education (2013) (0)
Social skills outcomes of arts education (2013) (0)
Does Making Art Improve Well-Being? (2018) (0)

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