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Article: Passive tactile feedback facilitates mental rotation of handheld objects
- Article from:
- Memory & Cognition
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Psychonomic Society, Inc. Mar 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Mental rotation of objects improves when passive tactile information for the rotating object accompanies the imagined rotation (Wraga, Creem, & Proffitt, 2000). We examined this phenomenon further using a within-subjects paradigm involving handheld objects. In Experiment 1, participants imagined rotating an unseen object placed on their upturned palms. The participants were faster at mental rotation when the object was rotated on their palm than when the object remained stationary. Experiment 2 tested whether the performance advantage would endure when the participants received tactile information for only the start- and endpoints of the rotation event. This manipulation did not improve ...
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