Abstract
The time required to recognize that two perspective drawings portray objects of the same three-dimensional shape is found to be (i) a linearly increasing function of the angular difference in the portrayed orientations of the two objects and (ii) no shorter for differences corresponding simply to a rigid rotation of one of the two-dimensional drawings in its own picture plane than for differences corresponding to a rotation of the three-dimensional object in depth.
Keywords
Mental rotationRotation (mathematics)Object (grammar)Perspective (graphical)Plane (geometry)GeometryMathematicsThree-dimensional spaceFunction (biology)PhysicsComputer scienceArtificial intelligencePsychologyCognitionBiology
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- 1971
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 171
- Issue
- 3972
- Pages
- 701-703
- Citations
- 6107
- Access
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Roger N. Shepard,
Jacqueline Metzler
(1971).
Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects.
Science
, 171
(3972)
, 701-703.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.171.3972.701
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- DOI
- 10.1126/science.171.3972.701