Haptic mental rotation revisited: multiple reference frame dependence

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 251-259

  Volcic, Robert ^a,b   Wijntjes, Maarten W A ^a,c   Kappers, Astrid M L ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Frame of reference; Hand; Haptic; Mental rotation; Space; Touch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; ROTATION; VISION;

HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 61749086574     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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