… photographs of real human figures to create a novel 3D mental rotations test allowed for an
… strategy on gender differences in mental rotation. Human figures appear to encourage the …

… the same participants, mental rotation of hands and mental rotation of the threedimensional
multiarmed figures used by Shepard and Metzler ~1971!. If image rotation occurs when one …

… were similarly activated during all three mental rotation tasks. Thus, our results suggest
that different kinds of stimuli used for mental rotation tasks did not inevitably evoke activations …

… From these results of the current study, one could conclude that rotation in real life may be
less important for mental rotation than often presumed in the literature. The development of …

… Carpenter and Eisenberg (978) in their study of haptic mental rotation in blind and sighted
subjects. In that study, a visual mental-rotation task, which was included as a control condition, …

… It is still debated whether holistic or piecemeal transformation is applied to carry out mental
rotation (MR) as an aspect of visual imagery. It has been recently argued that various mental …

… to require the mental operation. In this paper we will show that not all “mental rotation tasks”
… To keep our terminology clear we will use the term “mental rotation" to refer to an imagined …

… We reasoned that evidence for mental rotation would be revealed in the test trials by a
preference for the mirror-image object; such a preference would imply recognition that the other …

… mental rotation is a covert simulation of motor rotation. Instead of overtly performing a rotation…
external world do our computation), in mental rotation we plan the action but do not execute …

… as framing and figure consistency, and individual differences, such as habitual spatial
thinking, on mental rotation performance. We begin by explaining the Mental Rotation task and …