The role of mental rotation in letter processing by children and adults.
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie
- Vol. 34 (3) , 265-269
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0081063
Abstract
Children and adults identified or discriminated the version (normal or backwards) of letters presented in 10 different orientations between o-180 degrees. Reaction time to discriminate version increased linearly with orientation for both children and adults, but reaction time to identify was not strongly influenced by orientation for either children or adults. Apparently children and adults mentally rotate a representation of the letter to discriminate version, but that neither children nor adults rotate letters to identify them.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Mental rotation and perceptual uprightnessPerception & Psychophysics, 1978
- Mental rotation and number conservation: Are they related?Developmental Psychology, 1977