Object- and direction-specific interference between manual and mental rotation

Sack, Alexander T., Lindner, Michael and Linden, David Edmund Johannes ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5638-9292 2007. Object- and direction-specific interference between manual and mental rotation. Perception & Psychophysics 69 (8) , pp. 1435-1449. 10.3758/BF03192958

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Abstract

We conducted a series of psychophysical experiments to investigate the nature and specificity of behavioral interference between mental and manual rotation. Participants were asked to mentally rotate five different types of visual stimuli—hands, faces, tools, cubes, and natural objects—either clockwise or counterclockwise while they simultaneously manually rotated a wheel in the concordant or discordant direction. Our study clearly revealed object-specific interference between manual and mental rotation. In comparison with a neutral baseline condition without any manual rotation, both manual rotation directions generally impaired the mental rotation of cubes. In contrast, the mental rotation of hands was impaired only by discordant manual rotation. This objectand direction-specific interference between manual and mental rotation proved to be independent of task difficulty. We furthermore found an angular distance effect across different stimulus types.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine Psychology MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0031-5117
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 09:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/32886

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