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Drawing Faces – FINAL REVISION Miall, Gowen Tchalenko 15-10-07 1 Drawing cartoon faces – a functional imaging study of the cognitive neuroscience of drawing R Chris Miall (1), Emma Gowen (1,2), John Tchalenko (3) (1) Brain Behaviour Centre, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham UK (2) current address: School of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester UK (3) Camberwell College of the Arts, Camberwell, London UK Corresponding author Chris Miall email r.c.miall@bham.ac.uk Acknowledgments This work was funded by the Camberwell College of the Arts, the Wellcome Trust, and the BBSRC. Bruce Atherton drew the cartoon heads used as stimuli. We gratefully acknowledge use of the facilities of the BUIC Centre, Birmingham. Drawing Faces – FINAL REVISION Miall, Gowen Tchalenko 15-10-07 2 Abstract We report a functional imaging study of drawing cartoon faces. Normal, untrained participants were scanned while viewing simple black and white cartoon line-drawings of human faces, retaining them for a short memory interval, and then drawing them without vision of their hand or the paper. Specific encoding and retention of information about the faces was tested for by contrasting these two stages (with display of cartoon faces) against the exploration and retention of random dot stimuli. Drawing was contrasted between conditions in which only memory of a previously viewed face was available versus a condition in which both memory and simultaneous viewing of the cartoon was possible, and versus drawing of a new, previously unseen, face. We show that the encoding of cartoon faces powerfully activates the face sensitive areas of the lateral occipital cortex and the fusiform gyrus, but there is no significant activation in these areas during the retention interval. Activity in both areas was also high w