Matthews, William J. and Adams, Amy (2008) Last but not least: Another reason why adults find it hard to draw accurately. Perception, Vol.37 (No.4). pp. 628-630. ISSN 0301-0066

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Abstract

Misperception of objects is a major cause of inaccuracies in adults' drawing. It has previously been established that participants' drawings are biased by their knowledge of the drawn object. We hypothesised that additional inaccuracy arises because drawings are biased towards participants' idiosyncratic canonical representations of the object. We report that participants' free drawings of a cylinder are correlated with their observational drawings of the same shape, providing evidence that people's observational drawings are distorted by their individual schematic representations of the objects in question. It is unclear whether this reflects a perceptual distortion or a bias in drawing production; in either case, this result provides a further explanation why people are poor at drawing from observation.

Item Type:	Journal Item
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Psychology
Journal or Publication Title:	Perception
Publisher:	Pion Ltd.
ISSN:	0301-0066
Date:	2008
Volume:	Vol.37
Number:	No.4
Page Range:	pp. 628-630
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/44030

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