… In conclusion, then, the present experiment supports the notion that participants automatically
update … only by engaging in mental rotation that overrides the automatic updating process. …

… updating mechanism is, the better mental rotations will be. This new multisensory approach
of mental rotations … difficulty of preventing the automatic updating process when the observer …

… of orientation is automatically updated by … ) rotation. The second aim was to assess whether
monitoring orientation is indeed automatic, or whether it requires some degree of mental …

… This `mental updating' seems to be automatic and difficult to inhibit; after memorizing an …
new, mentally-updated position than the old, memorized one. Such mental updating requires …

… Mental rotation and the automatic updating of body-centered spatial relationships.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 24, 227–233. …

… Although objects in the real environment were automatically updated … not automatically
updated when the participants turned in the real environment. However, explicit spatial updating …

… of imagined updating was found to be due to imagined rotation and not to imagined translation;
updating after the latter was just as quick and accurate as updating after actual rotations …

… Thus, verbal-processing paths are not inevitably and automatically evoked during the mental
rotation of verbal material like letters. It should be mentioned that our instruction required …

… by mental rotation the automatic updating that had already taken place. This pattern of
responses … further support for the proposal that the subjects updated their positions automatically. …

… the use of automatic updating mechanisms triggered during … in order to facilitate mental
rotations. The previously existing … of the literature on mental rotations and expose the current …