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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Sep 5.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Psychol. 2023 Jul 17;2(9):556–568. doi: 10.1038/s44159-023-00212-w

Fig. 1 |. Drawing as a window into the visual system.

Fig. 1 |

When an individual has the goal of drawing what they perceive, such as a bird on a branch, the resulting drawing preserves perceived contours, depth and texture, including biases introduced during perception that are not in the input. The effects of social cognition and memory are modest relative to the contribution of perception. Although motor processes are recruited during drawing production, they primarily serve to externalize the contents of perception, rather than to influence ongoing perceptual processing.