Mental rotation is not easily cognitively penetrable

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-75

  Borst, Grégoire ^a   Kievit, Rogier A ^a   Thompson, William L ^a   Kosslyn, Stephen M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive penetration; Mental rotation; Tacit knowledge; Visual mental imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; VISUAL MEMORY; ATTENTION; IMAGINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL ROTATION; ORIENTATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79955000347     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2011.454498     Document Type: Article

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