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Article: Object- and direction-specific interference between manual and mental rotation
- Article from:
- Perception and Psychophysics
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Psychonomic Society, Inc. Nov 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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We conducted a series of psychophysical experiments to investigate the nature and specificity of behavioral interference between mental and manual rotation. Participants were asked to mentally rotate five different types of visual stimuli-hands, faces, tools, cubes, and natural objects-either clo
ckwise or counterclockwise while they simultaneously manually rotated a wheel in the concordant or discordant direction. Our study clearly revealed object-specific interference between manual and mental rotation. In comparison with a neutral baseline condition without any manual rotation, both manual rotation directions generally unpaired the mental rotation of cubes. In contrast, the mental ...