Mental rotation of letters, body parts and complex scenes: Separate or common mechanisms?

Human Movement Science

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1151-1160

  Dalecki, Marc ^a   Hoffmann, Uwe ^a   Bock, Otmar ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Egocentric; Error rate; Perspective taking; Reaction time; Self rotation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL ROTATION; RESPONSE TIME; ROTATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS; VISION;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KINESTHESIS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870254014     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: 18727646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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