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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

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  • Accurate shape perception is vital for object recognition and interaction.
  • Humans make both objective (physical) and projective (retinal) shape judgments.
  • Realistic drawing requires projective shape judgments, theoretically benefiting from local processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the perceptual basis of realistic drawing skill in neurotypical adults.
  • To determine if drawing skill is linked to a local processing bias.
  • To explore the role of perceptual flexibility in shape judgment and drawing.

Main Methods:

  • A comprehensive shape perception task assessing context effects.
  • A realistic drawing task.
  • Measures of local processing bias.

Main Results:

  • Drawing skill in neurotypical adults was not found to be based on a local processing bias.
  • The study challenges the assumption that local processing is key for drawing.

Conclusions:

  • The perceptual underpinnings of drawing skill are more complex than a simple local processing bias.
  • Perceptual flexibility, the ability to switch between local and global processing, is proposed as a key mechanism for accurate shape judgments and drawing.