Dr. Unnur Óttarsdóttir gave a lecture and workshop at the LÁ Art Museum in Iceland. There were interested and interesting participants, and it was enjoyable informing them about research on memory drawing. Unnur shared her recent research, which indicated that drawing significantly boosts memory recall, especially for individuals who struggle with memorising written words. Interestingly, […]
Dr. Unnur Óttarsdóttir has been invited, alongside respected art therapists, to speak at the World Art Therapy Conference 2025. She will present, 8th of February 2025, her research on memory and drawing. The potential of memory drawing, a technique developed by Óttarsdóttir, as a method for enhancing memory retention and supporting emotional well-being will be […]
Dr. Unnur Guðrún Óttarsdóttir, educator and art therapist, presents in an online webinar the lecture Enhancing Recall and Emotional Well-being Through Memory Drawing. The occasion is the findings of a memory drawing study recently published in the journal Education Sciences and in a book chapter released by Routledge. Dr. Óttarsdóttir’s research consisted of asking […]
Unni Óttarsdóttur var boðið í viðtal hjá Gunnari Hanssyni í Sumarmálum í Ríkisútvarpinu (RÚV) þar sem þau töuðu um minnisteiknirannsóknir hennar. Sagði Unnur frá rannsókn með 134 börnum sem mundu að jafnaði 5 sinnum fleiri teiknuð orð en skrifuð 9 vikum eftir að þau lögðu þau á minnið. Í rannsókn þar sem 262 fullorðnir einstaklingar […]
Komin er út bókarkafli eftir Unni Óttarsdóttur sem nefnist „Minnisteikning fyrir börn sem hafa upplifað áföll og/eða álag og eiga við sértæka násmörðuleika að stríða“ (e. „Memory Drawing for Children who have Experienced Stress and/or Trauma and have Specific Learning Difficulties”) í bók sem gefin var út hjá Routledge og nefnist „Memory Shaping Connections in […]
Flutt var frétt í Ríkisútvarpinu (RÚV) (mín 02:57) um minnisteiknirannsókn Unnar þar sem niðurstöður gáfu til kynna að að teikning eykur minni til langs tíma fyrir eintaklinga sem eiga auðvelt með að muna skrifuð orð. Einnig jók teikning stórlega bæði skamm- og langtímaminni þátttakenda sem áttu erfitt með að muna skrifuð orð. Er þetta í […]
The Faculty of Health, Business, and Natural Sciences at the University of Akureyri organized the Sjónaukinn conference, where Unnur presented a lecture titled "Joint Mirror Drawing to Facilitate Communication and Increase Well-being." The conference's theme was Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges. She shared the mirror drawing method's development, discovery, and application with the audience. At the […]
New research by Dr. Unnur Guðrún Óttarsdóttir on "Experiments on the Efficacy of Drawing for Memorization among Adults and Children with Varying Written Word Memory Capacities: A Two-Way Crossover Design," has been published in the "Education Sciences" journal (29 April 2024). For those who find it challenging to remember words, drawing them has been shown […]
Unnur participated in a conference about trauma and memory from an interdisciplinary perspective. The conference was hosted by the "London Center for Interdisciplinary Research." Unnur delivered the lecture "Memory Drawing for Children who Have Experienced Stress and/or Trauma and Have Specific Learning Difficulties" about her research on trauma, treatment, learning, and memory. She discussed how […]
Comprehensive studies show drawing facilitates memory, enhances learning and promotes well-being REYKJAVIK, Iceland, May 22, 2023 – Art Therapy Ottarsdottir, provider of a method where artistic expression is used for both therapy and education, today announced that its founder Dr. Unnur Ottarsdottir, a global pioneer of the art educational therapy method – was honored to […]
