Asymmetric learning transfer between imagined viewer- and object-rotations: Evidence of a hierarchical organization of spatial reference frames

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 272-278

  Pellizzer, Giuseppe ^a,b   Bâ, Maryse Badan ^c   Zanello, Adriano ^c   Merlo, Marco C G ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Egocentric; Mental rotation; Perspective taking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; ROTATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 70350338211     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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