Asymmetric response time functions during left-/right-facing discriminations of rotated objects: The short and the long of it

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• 作者：Jordan A. Searle ; Jeff P. Hamm
• 关键词：Mental Rotation ; Individual differences ; Visual Imagery
• 刊名：Memory & Cognition
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：44
• 期：1
• 页码：124-142
• 全文大小：2,031 KB
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• 作者单位：Jordan A. Searle (1)
  Jeff P. Hamm (1)
  
  1. Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, School of Psychology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  
• 刊物主题：Cognitive Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1532-5946

文摘

When deciding if a rotated object would face to the left or to the right, if imagined at the upright, mental rotation is typically assumed to be carried out through the shortest angular distance to the upright prior to determining the direction of facing. However, the response time functions for left- and right-facing objects are oppositely asymmetric, which is not consistent with the standard explanation. Using Searle and Hamm’s individual differences adaption of Kung and Hamm’s Mixture Model, the current study compares the predicted response time functions derived when assuming that objects are rotated through the shortest route to the upright with the predicted response time functions derived when assuming that objects are rotated in the direction they face. The latter model provides a better fit to the majority of the individual data. This allows us to conclude that, when deciding if rotated objects would face to the left or to the right if imagined at the upright, mental rotation is carried out in the direction that the objects face and not necessarily in the shortest direction to the upright. By comparing results for mobile and immobile object sets we can also conclude that semantic information regarding the mobility of an object does not appear to influence the speed of mental rotation, but it does appear to influence pre-rotation processes and the likelihood of employing a mental rotation strategy.