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Article: Different strategies do not moderate primary motor cortex involvement in mental rotation: a TMS study.(Research)
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- Behavioral and Brain Functions
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- August 7, 2007
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Authors: Stefan Bode [1,2]; Susan Koeneke (corresponding author) [2]; Lutz J
äncke [2]
Background
The ability to create and manipulate mental images is a very important psychological function in human cognition. One common approach to the study of this function was introduced by Shepard and Metzler [1]. In their studies, subjects were required to compare pairs of three-dimensional objects presented at different degrees of rotation within the picture plane and to judge as fast as possible whether the objects are identical or mirror images. The initial results point to a positive linear relationship between the degree of angular disparity ...
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