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Mental rotation: an examination of assumptions

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2017
Since first presented by Shepard and Metzler, Science 1971, 171: 701–703, mental rotation has been described as a rotary transformation of a visual stimulus allowing it to be represented in a new orientation. For a given stimulus, the transformation is thought to occur at a constant speed, though speed may vary between stimuli; three‐dimensional ...
Jordan A. Searle, Jeff P. Hamm
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Saccades to mentally rotated targets

Experimental Brain Research, 1999
In order to investigate the role of mental rotation in the directional control of eye movements, we instructed subjects to make saccades in directions different from that of a visual stimulus (rotated saccades). Saccadic latency increased linearly with the amount of directional transformation imposed between the stimulus and the response. This supports
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The development of mental rotation abilities through robotics‐based instruction: An experience mediated by gender

British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
The research literature on the topic of "spatial ability" reveals that it has a major influence on achievement in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
J. A. González-Calero, Ramón Cózar, Rafael Villena, José Miguel Merino   +3 more
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Mental Rotation, Age, and Conservation

The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1989
Les auteurs reexaminent les relations entre une tache de rotation mentale et la conservation afin de tester l'hypothese de Piaget et Inheldex (1988) selon laquelle des enfants de niveau pre-operatoire ne peuvent pas se representer le mouvement en imagerie ...
Michael Hollifield, Laura Bradley, Brenda Sullivan, David Foulkes   +3 more
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Mental Rotation and Age Reconsidered

Journal of Gerontology, 1981
Research has established that subjects required to identify tilted patterns do so by first rotating them mentally into an upright position. Gaylord and Marsh (1975) found that the rate of mental rotation of elderly subjects was 84% slower than young subjects.
John Cerella, Leonard W. Poon, James L. Fozard   +2 more
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Reference frames in mental rotation.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1987
Four experiments are reported that investigate whether images or reference frames are transformed during a mental rotation task. In all experiments a display of four identical letters (P1) was presented at either +90 degrees or -90 degrees from upright, and subjects had to decide whether the letters were normal or mirror-image reflections.
Lynn C. Robertson, Stephen E. Palmer, Louis M. Gomez   +2 more
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Developmental differences in mental rotation

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
Abstract A reaction time paradigm was used to investigate developmental differences in ability to rotate and compare imaginal representations. Third grade, fifth grade, and college students (ages 9, 11, and 20 years, respectively) were required to determine whether a letter of the alphabet was presented in its backward or normal position.
John Polich, Michael K. Childs
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The effect of handedness on mental rotation of hands: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Psychological Research, 2021
H. Jones, Felicity A. Braithwaite, Louisa M. Edwards, Ryan Causby, Massimiliano Conson, T. Stanton   +5 more
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Mental Rotation, Mental Representation, and Flat Slopes

Cognitive Psychology, 1993
The "mental rotation" literature has studied how subjects determine whether two stimuli that differ in orientation have the same handedness. This literature implies that subjects perform the task by imagining the rotation of one of the stimuli to the orientation of the other. This literature has spawned several theories of mental representation.
Michael Kubovy, Dale J. Cohen
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Mental rotation: An event-related potential study with a validated mental rotation task

Brain and Cognition, 1989
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while subjects performed a validated mental rotation task, taken from the cognitive psychology literature. These ERPs show a late posterior negativity relative to a baseline condition requiring all of the same perceptual and cognitive processes except for the mental rotation itself.
Martha J. Farah, F Peronnet
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