Graphic Long-Term Memories of How to Draw Faces Are Not Orientation-Specific: Imagination Drawings Are Correlated with Upright, Upside-Down & Side-Ways Drawings

Two experiments demonstrate that the relationship between imagination- and observation-based drawings of faces are not orientation dependent. For multiple spatial relationships between features (e.g. eye-mouth distance, eye-nose distance, inter-ocular distance), imagination-based drawings (produced from memory) were positively correlated with upright, upside-down and side-ways observation-based drawings (produced from a photographic model).