Mental Rotation of Representations of Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Objects
Empirical and theoretical considerations suggest that representations of three-dimensional objects should be more difficult to rotate mentally than representations of two-dimensional objects. In this study, subjects were asked to make mirror-normal decisions with stimuli that differed in perceived d...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Canadian Journal of Psychology 1985-03, Vol.39 (1), p.100-129 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Empirical and theoretical considerations suggest that representations of
three-dimensional objects should be more difficult to rotate mentally than
representations of two-dimensional objects. In this study, subjects were
asked to make mirror-normal decisions with stimuli that differed in
perceived dimensionality and in angle of rotation in the image plane. In a
series of four experiments, the time to make mirror-normal decisions
increased with increased orientation discrepancy between the stimuli, as
found previously in the literature. In every experiment, however, response
times were smaller for representations of two-dimensional shapes than for
representations of three-dimensional shapes when the stimuli being compared
were presented with a large angular discrepancy. Whereas response times
increased linearly with orientation when representations of
three-dimensional shapes were rotated, the increase in response time for
representations of two-dimensional shapes was generally nonlinear. Overall,
the evidence suggests that representations of three-dimensional shapes are
mentally rotated at the same rate as representations of two-dimensional
shapes for angles of rotation between 0° and 60°. For
larger angles of rotation, however, the rate of mental rotation is greater
for representations of two-dimensional shapes than for representations of
three-dimensional shapes.
Diverses considérations empiriques et théoriques
laissent supposer qu'il doit être plus difficile de faire
mentalement la rotation d'objets tridimensionnels que celle d'objets
bidimensionnels. Dans cette étude, les sujets doivent faire le
choix, image miroir-image normale, dans le cas de stimuli qui different
quant aux dimensions perçues et à Tangle de rotation
dans le plan de l'image. Dans une série de quatre
expériences, le temps requis pour prendre la décision
s'accroît avec l'augmentation des différences
d'orientation entre les stimuli. Ceci concorde avec ce que l'on retrouve
dans les écrits antérieurs sur le sujet. Dans chaque
expérience, cependant, les temps de latence sont plus courts pour
des represéntations de formes bidimensionnelles que
tridimensionnelles lorsque les stimuli comparés sont
présentés avec une grande différence angulaire.
Alors que dans le cas des rotations de formes tridimensionnelles le temps
de latence varie de façon linéaire en fonction de
l'orientation, dans le cas de formes bidimensionnelles, cette variation
n'est généralement pas linéaire. Les
résultats montrent q |
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ISSN: | 0008-4255 1196-1961 1878-7290 |
DOI: | 10.1037/h0080118 |