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Citation

Jolicoeur P, Cavanagh P. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1992; 18(2): 371-384.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1593224

Abstract

Subjects made mirror-normal discriminations on alphanumeric characters shown in different orientations in the picture plane. Either the characters or the background rotated during stimulus presentation in Experiments 1-3. Character rotation in the direction of mental rotation facilitated mental rotation, whereas rotation in the opposite direction inhibited it. In Experiment 4, characters were presented in different surface media so as to stimulate only one representation at a time. Mental rotation performance was similar whether the stimuli were defined by luminance, color, texture, relative motion, or binocular disparity, suggesting that mental rotation occurs at a level beyond that of the independent analyses of these different media. These results support those of Experiments 1-3 in excluding the participation of low-level motion analysis centers in the mental rotation processes.


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