Professor of Psychology, Boston College

Senior Research Associate, Harvard Project Zero

Director, Laboratory for Teaching, Learning, and Cognition in the Arts

Ellen Winner

winner@bc.edu

                 Books

Winner, E. (1982). Invented worlds: The psychology of the arts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Paperback, 1985). Order from amazon.com

 

Winner, E. (1988).The point of words: Children's understanding of metaphor and irony. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Order from amazon.com

 

Winner, E. (1996). Gifted children: Myths and realities. New York: BasicBooks. Order from amazon.com

 

Hetland, L., Winner, E., Veenema. S., & Sheridan, K. (2007.

Studio thinking: The real benefits of visual arts education.

Teachers College Press.

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Special Issues Edited

Winner, E.and Gardner, H. (Eds.) (1979).Fact, fiction, and fantasy in childhood. New Directions for Child Development, 1979, 6.

Winner, E.(Ed.) (1993): Arts PROPEL:

An introductory handbook; 

A handbook for the visual arts;

A handbook for imaginative writing;

A handbook for music.

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Winner, E.(Ed.) (1995). Tenth anniversary issue: Developmental perspectives on metaphor.

Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 10, 4.

 

Winner, E., & Hetland, L. (2000). The arts and academic achievement: What the evidence shows.

Journal of Aesthetic Education, 34 (3-4), 2000.

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Winner, E. and Hetland, L. (2001). Beyond the Soundbite: Arts Education and Academic Outcomes.

Conference Proceedings from "Beyond the Soundbite:

What the Research Actually Shows About Arts

Education and Academic Outcomes."

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust.

 

Articles

1975

Gardner, H., Kircher, M., Winner, E., & Perkins, D. (1975).

Children's metaphoric productions and preferences.

Journal of Child Language, 2, 125-141.

 

Gardner, H., Winner, E., & Kircher, M. (1975).

Children's conceptions of the arts.

Journal of Aesthetic Education,  9, 60-77.

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Silverman, J., Winner, E., Rosensteil, A., & Gardner, H.(1975).

On training sensitivity to painting styles.

Perception, 4, 373-384.

 

1976

Winner, E., Rosenstiel, A., & Gardner, H. (1976).

The development of metaphoric understanding.

Developmental Psychology,  12, 289-297.

 

Silverman, J., Winner, E., & Gardner, H. (1976).

On going beyond the literal:The development of sensitivity to artistic symbols.

Semiotica, 18, 4, 291-312.

 

Gardner, H.& Winner, E. (1976).

How children learn: Three stages of understanding art.

Psychology Today, March.

 

Winner, E. (1976).

Review of Colin Martindale's Romantic progression:

The psychology of literary history.

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 34, 4, 501-503.

 

1977

Winner, E.& Gardner, H.(1977).

The comprehension of metaphor in brain-damaged patients.

Brain, 100, 719-727.

 

Winner, E. & Gardner, H. (1977). Response to Jose Rosario,

In Commentaries and Rejoinders,

Journal of Aesthetic Education, 11, 101-102.

 

1978

Gardner, H.& Winner, E. (1978).

The development of metaphoric competence:

Implications for humanistic disciplines.

Critical Inquiry, 5, 123-141.

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Gardner, H.& Winner, E. (1978). 

A study of repetition in aphasic patients.

Brain and Language, 6, 168-178.

 

Gardner, H., Winner, E., Bechhofer, R., & Wolf, D. (1978).

The development of figurative language. In K. Nelson (Ed.),

Children's language. New York: Gardner Press.

 

1979

Winner, E. (1979).

New names for old things: The emergence of metaphoric

language.

Journal of Child Language, 6, 469-491.

 

Winner, E., McCarthy, M., Kleinman, S., & Gardner, H(1979).

First metaphors.

New Directions for Child Development, 3,29-42.

 

Winner, E.& Ettlinger, G.(1979).

Do chimpanzees perceive photographs as representations of objects?

Neuropsychologia, 17, 3/4, 413-420.

 

Winner, E., Wagner, W., Cicone, M., & Gardner, H. (1979).

Measures of metaphor.

In E.Winner and H.Gardner (Eds.),

New Directions for Child Development, 6, 67-76.

 

Gardner, H.& Winner, E. (1979).

The child is father to the metaphor.

Psychology Today, May, 81-91.

 

1980

Winner, E., Engel, M., & Gardner, H.(1980).

Misunderstanding metaphor: What's the problem?

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 30, 22-32.

 

Winner, E., McCarthy, M., and Gardner, H. (1980). 

The ontogenesis of metaphor.

In R.Honeck and R.Hoffman (Eds.),

Cognition and figurative language. Hillsdale, N.J.:Erlbaum.

 

1981

Cicone, M., Gardner, H., & Winner, E. (1981).

Understanding the psychology in psychological metaphors.

Journal of Child Language, 8, 1, 213-216.

 

Wagner, S., Winner, E., Cicchetti, D., & Gardner, H. (1981).

"Metaphorical" mapping in human infants.

Child Development, 52, 728-731.

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Winner, E.and Gardner, H. (1981).

The art in children's drawings.

Review of Research in Visual Arts Education, 14, 18-31.

 

Gardner, H.& Winner, E.(1981).

First intimations of artistry.

In S.Strauss (Ed.), U-shaped behavioral growth. New York: Academic Press.

 

Gardner, H., & Winner, E. (1981).

Artistry and aphasia.

In M. Sarno (Ed.), Acquired aphasia. New York: Academic Press.

 

1982

Silberstein, L., Gardner, H., Phelps, E., & Winner, E. (1982).

Autumn leaves and old photographs:The development of

metaphor preferences.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 34, 135-150.

 

Winner, E.(1982). Language development.

Chapter 4 of H.Gardner's Developmental Psychology, 2nd ed. Boston: Little Brown.

 

1983

Demorest, A., Silberstein, L., Gardner, H., & Winner, E. (1983). Telling it as it isn't: Children's understanding of figurative language. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1, 121-134.

 

Massey, C., Gardner, H., Blank, P., & Winner, E. (1983). Children's sensitivity to stylistic features in literature. Leonardo, 16, 3, 204-207.

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Winner, E., Blank, P., & Gardner, H.(1983).

 Children's sensitivity to aesthetic properties of line drawings.

In J. Sloboda and D. Rogers (Eds.), The acquisition of symbolic skills. London:Plenum Press, 1983.

 

Winner, E.and Gardner, H.(1983).

Graphic skills: Introduction.

In  J. Sloboda and D. Rogers (Eds.), The acquisition of symbolic skills. London:Plenum Press.

 

1984

Mendelsohn, E., Robinson, S., Gardner, H., & Winner, E. (1984).

Are preschoolers' renamings intentional category violations?

Developmental Psychology, 20, 187-192.

 

Demorest, A., Meyer, C., Phelps, E., Gardner, H., and Winner, E. (1984).

Words speak louder than actions: Understanding deliberately false remarks.

Child Development, 55, 1527-1534.

 

Blank, P., Massey, C., Gardner, H., & Winner, E. (1984).

Perceiving what paintings express.

In R.Crozier and A.Chapman (Eds.), Cognitive processes in the perception of art. Amsterdam: North Holland Press.

 

1985

Giftedness in the Visual arts. Items, 31, 4, 65-69.

 

1986

Windmueller, G., Massey, C., Blank, P., Gardner, H., & Winner, E. (1986).

Unpacking allegories and metaphors.

Human Development, 29, 4, 236-240.

 

Winner, E., Rosenblatt, E., Windmueller, G., Davidson, L., & Gardner, H. (1986).

Children's perception of "aesthetic" properties of the arts:Domain-specific or pan-artistic?

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4, 149-160.

 

Andrews, J., Rosenblatt, E., Malkus, U., Gardner, H., & Winner,  E.(1986).

Children's abilities to distinguish metaphoric and ironic utterances from mistakes and lies. Communication and Cognition,  19, 3/4, 281-298.

 

Winner, E. Where pelicans kiss seals. (1986).

Psychology Today, 20, 8, 24-35.

 

Gardner, H.& Winner, E. (1986).

Attitudes and attributes: Children's understanding of metaphor and sarcasm.

In M.Perlmutter (Ed.), Perspectives on Intellectual Development, The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, 19, 131-152. Hillsdale, N.J.:Erlbaum.

 

1987

Winner, E., Windmueller, G., Rosenblatt, E., Bosco, L., Best,  E., & Gardner, H. (1987).

Making sense of literal and nonliteral falsehood.

Metaphor and  Symbolic Activity, 2, 1, 13-32.

 

Winner, E., Dion, J., Rosenblatt, E., & Gardner, H.(1987).

Do lateral or vertical reversals affect balance in paintings?

Visual Arts Research, 13, 2, 1-9.

 

1988

Winner, E., Levy, J., Kaplan, J., & Rosenblatt, E.  (1988).

Children's understanding of nonliteral language.

Journal of Aesthetic Education, 22, 1, 51-63. 

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Rosenblatt, E.& Winner, E. (1988).

The art of children's drawings.

Journal of Aesthetic Education, 22, 1, 3-15.

 

Winner, E.& Gardner, H. (1988).

Creating a world with words.

In F.Kessel (Ed.).The development of language and language researchers:Essays in honor of Roger Brown. Hillsdale, N.J.:Erlbaum.

 

Rosenblatt, E.& Winner, E. (1988).

Is superior visual memory a component of superior drawing ability?

In L.Obler and D.Fein (Eds.),The  exceptional brain.  New York: Guilford Press.

 

Winner, E. & Gardner, H. (1988).

Review of Michael Parsons' How we understand art: A Cognitive-Developmental Account of Aesthetic Experience.

Human Development, 31, 4, 256-260.

 

1989

Winner, E.(1989).

How can Chinese children draw so well?

Journal of Aesthetic Education, 23, 1, 41-63.

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1989

Winner, E. (1989).

Development in the visual arts. 

In W. Damon (Ed.), Child Development Today and Tomorrow,  San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

 

1990

Casey, M., Winner, E., Brabeck, M., & Sullivan, K. (1990).

Visual-spatial  abilities in art, maths, and science majors: Effects of sex, handedness, and spatial experience. 

In K. Gilhooly, M. Keane, R. Logie, & G. Erdos  (Eds.), Lines of thinking: Reflections on the psychology of thought. Vol. 2. New York: Wiley.

 

1991

Casey, M., Winner, E., DaSilva, D., & Hayes, R.(1991).

Does processing style affect recall of the Rey-Osterrieth or Taylor Complex Figures?

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 13, 4, 600-606.

 

Winner, E., Casey, M., DaSilva, D., and Hayes, R.(1991).

Spatial abilities and reading deficits in visual art students.

Empirical Studies of the Arts, 9, 1, 51-63.

 

Winner, E., & Leekam, S.(1991).

Distinguishing irony from deception: Understanding the speaker's second-order intention

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 257-270.

 

Sullivan, K. & Winner, E. (1991).

When 3-year-olds understand ignorance, false belief and representational change.

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 159-171.

 

1991

Gardner, H., and Winner, E. (1991).

The course of creative growth: A tribute to Joachim Wohlwill.  In R. Downs, L. Liben, and D. Palermo (Eds.), Visions of aesthetics, the environment, and development: The legacy of Joachim Wohlwill. Hillsdale, N.J.:Erlbaum, 23-43.

 

Winner, E. (1991).

Arts PROPEL: A Sketch.

In P. McKeon, G. Sullivan, D. Walker, & A. Weate (Eds.), Occasional Seminars in Art Education, 3, 47-57.

 

Gardner, H.,Winner, E., & Rehak, A. (1991).

Artistry and aphasia.

In M. T. Sarno (Ed.), Acquired aphasia. (2nd ed.) New York:Academic Press. 

 

1993

Casey, M., Winner, E., Benbow, C., Hayes, R., & DaSilva, D.(1993).

Skill at image generation: Handedness  interacts with strategy preference for individuals with ability in math, science, and art.

Cognitive Neuropsychology, 10, 1, 57-77.

 

Sullivan, K., & Winner, E. (1993).

Three-year-olds' understanding of false mental states: the influence of trickery. 

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 56, 135-148.

 

Winner, E.(1993).

Exceptional artistic development: The role of visual thinking. Journal of Aesthetic Education,  27, 4, 31-44.

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Winner, E., & Casey, M.(1993). 

Cognitive profiles of artists. 

In G. Cupchik & J. Laszlo (Eds.), Emerging visions: Contemporary approaches to the aesthetic process.  Cambridge University Press.

 

Winner, E., & Gardner, H.(1993).

Metaphor and irony: Two levels of understanding. 

In A. Ortony (Ed.), Metaphor and thought (2nd edition).Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Winner, E., & Martino, G. (1993).

Giftedness in the Visual Arts and Music.

In K. Heller, F. Monks, & A. H. Passow (Eds.), International Handbook of Research and Development of  Giftedness and Talent, Pergamon Press.

 

1994

Torff, B. & Winner, E. (1994).

Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater: On the role of innate factors in musical accomplishment.

The Psychologist, 7, 8, 361-362.

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1995

64. Dews, S., & Winner, E. (1995).

Muting the meaning: A social function of irony. 

Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 10, 1, 3-19.

 

Sullivan, K., Winner, E., & Hopfield, N. (1995).

How children tell a lie from a joke: The role of second-order mental state attributions

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 13, 191-204.

 

Dews, S.,  Kaplan, J., & Winner, E. (1995).

Why not say it directly? The social function of irony.

Discourse Processes, 19, 3, 347-367.

 

Martino, G., & Winner, E. (1995).

Talents and disorders: The relationship between sex, handedness, and college major.

Brain and Cognition, 29, 66-84.

 

De Groot, A., Kaplan, J., Rosenblatt, E., Dews, S., & Winner, E. (1995).

Understanding vs. discriminating nonliteral utterances: Evidence for a dissociation.

In E. Winner (Ed.),  Developmental perspectives on metaphor. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 10, 4, 255-273.

 

Winner, E.(1995). 

Introduction to 10th Anniversary Special Issue: Developmental Perspectives on Metaphor.

Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 10(4), 247-253.

 

1996

Dews, S., Winner, E., Kaplan, J., Rosenblatt, E., Hunt, M., Lim, K., McGovern, A., Qualter, A., & Smarsh, B. (1996).

Children’s understanding of the meaning and functions of verbal irony.