ABSTRACT
The study of neurological patients with focal brain damage has served as a reliable and valid source for understanding functional brain localization. We have seen throughout this book that art production continues to be executed in established artists despite the damage, its etiology, or extent. This suggests a wide and diff use representation of art talent and skill. The skill that produces art works appears to recruit several neuronal networks. Acquired damage to the right hemisphere or to the left hemisphere, in various focal areas, does not lead to disappearance, abolishment, or elimination of artistic production. Nor does the ability to draw objects from memory by non-artists disappear following similar damage. Talent, extensive lifelong practice, and skill preservation all suggest redundancy in functional representation and explain the spared artistic capacity.
