Reviewer #1: The manuscript describes an fMRI study of 24 designers engaging in various aspects of the landscape design task. It is concluded that "designs involving more graphic thinking exhibit significantly more activity in left prefrontal cortex."
On the one hand the authors are talking about problem solving in terms of problems scoping, preliminary solutions, refinement, and detailing (figure 1). On the other hand, their task involves viewing, copying drawing, brainstorming, graphic thinking (figure 4). How does the one vocabulary map onto the other? Even more importantly, what is happening during the 60 seconds allowed for each phase? What are the participants doing? What cognitive processes are being engaged? What behavioural data can the authors provide to support their conjecture? There is no way of knowing based on the information provided. If we cannot answer these questions, we cannot even begin to interpret the results.
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Reviewer #3: This paper analyses the brain areas activated in a design task where designers were asked to perform a landscape design task under the fMRI scanner in two stages: brainstorming without drawing and graphic thinking where they draw and refine the ideas they generated during the brainstorming stage. There were two control conditions were of viewing a plan and imagining being there and another was to copy a plan. I have reservations about the design of the study and the depth of conceptual underpinnings of the study. Most of the terms are loosely defined and leads to confusion. The introduction and discussion are not detailed and severely lack references.
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