Drawing as a tool for investigating the nature of imagery representations of blind people: The case of canonical size phenomenon

The current experimental study aimed to investigate the under-researched issue of the size of drawings created by people with blindness. Participants (<em>N</em> = 59) varied in their visual status since one group – adventitiously blind people – had previous visual experience and might use visual representations (e.g. when visualising objects in imagery/working memory); the second group of congenitally blind people did not have any visual experience. The participant’s task was to draw from memory common objects that vary in size in the real world. The findings revealed that both groups produced larger drawings of objects that have larger actual sizes.