Mental rotation task of hands: Differential influence number of rotational axes

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 347-354

  Ter Horst, Arjan C ^a   Van Lier, Rob ^a   Steenbergen, Bert ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Laterality judgment; Mental rotation; Motor imagery; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954423140     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2235-1     Document Type: Article

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