{"pk":24788,"title":"Unfolding Structure in the Drawings of Cubes","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Recent work using neural networks and crowd-sourced perceptual judgements has shown that human figure drawings contain latent structure that can predict many characteristics of the artist including parent-reported motor function and perceived gender. We extend these approaches to two-dimensional renderings of three-dimensional cubes, assessing whether latent structure in these cube drawings likewise predicts demographic characteristics and motor function measured via a paper-folding task. Drawings produced with marker and paper showed a large predictive relationship with paper-folding (accounting for 59% of the offset variance, 62% of the angle variance, ps < .01). We also observed a complex interaction with gender: better cube-drawings predicted better paper-folding for male-identifying participants, but this relationship was reversed for female-identifying participants, who demonstrated better paper folding abilities overall. The results suggest that cube drawings contain richer structure than previously recognized and can provide a useful nonverbal metric for characterizing aspects of cognitive and motor abilities.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Cognitive development; Motor control; Spatial cognition; Knowledge representation; Neural Networks"}],"section":"Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1db795jx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Clint","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Jensen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin - Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Timothy","middle_name":"T","last_name":"Rogers","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin- Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Brittany G.","middle_name":"","last_name":"Travers","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Heather","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kirkorian","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Karl","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rosengren","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Rochester","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24788/galley/21695/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24788/galley/14386/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24788/galley/18243/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24788/galley/21695/download/"}]}