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During the 'dripfest' experiment adults and children were asked to recreate a painting in Pollock’s style. Credit: Richard Taylor. Different artists create different art, a new study has confirmed.

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Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.