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Visual mental rotation of possible and impossible objects

Visual mental rotation of possible and impossible objects
Visual mental rotation of possible and impossible objects
Participants were tested on two visual mental rotation tasks using three-dimensional “possible? and “impossible? shapes. Both types of stimuli can be easily encoded by their parts and how they are spatially organized. However, while possible shapes can also be easily encoded as a global image, it is more difficult to encode impossible shapes in such a way. Participants visually rotated both types of stimuli at comparable rates, reflecting that local representations were used in the process of visual mental rotation.
242-247
Dror, Itiel E.
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Ivey, Chandra
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Rogus, Courtney
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Dror, Itiel E.
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Ivey, Chandra
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Rogus, Courtney
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Dror, Itiel E., Ivey, Chandra and Rogus, Courtney (1997) Visual mental rotation of possible and impossible objects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4 (2), 242-247.

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Participants were tested on two visual mental rotation tasks using three-dimensional “possible? and “impossible? shapes. Both types of stimuli can be easily encoded by their parts and how they are spatially organized. However, while possible shapes can also be easily encoded as a global image, it is more difficult to encode impossible shapes in such a way. Participants visually rotated both types of stimuli at comparable rates, reflecting that local representations were used in the process of visual mental rotation.

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Published date: 1997

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Local EPrints ID: 18354
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/18354
PURE UUID: 0f2d6206-9c84-4100-8443-0b12aff78e77

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Date deposited: 10 Jan 2006
Last modified: 08 Jan 2022 15:46

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Author: Itiel E. Dror
Author: Chandra Ivey
Author: Courtney Rogus

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