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Thinking Outside The Body: An Advantage For Spatial Updating During Imagined Versus Physical Self-Rotation, Maryjane Wraga
Thinking Outside The Body: An Advantage For Spatial Updating During Imagined Versus Physical Self-Rotation, Maryjane Wraga
Psychology: Faculty Publications
Three studies examined effects of different response measures on spatial updating during self-rotation. In Experiment 1, participants located objects in an array with a pointer after physical self-rotation, imagined self-rotation, and a rotation condition in which they ignored superfluous sensorimotor signals. In line with previous research, updating performance was found to be superior in the physical self-rotation condition compared with the other 2. In Experiment 2, participants performed in identical movement conditions but located objects by verbal labeling rather than pointing. Within the verbal modality, an advantage for updating during imagined self-rotation was found. In Experiment 3, participants performed physical …
Implicit Transfer Of Motor Ssrategies In Mental Rotation, Maryjane Wraga, William L. Thompson, Nathaniel M. Alpert, Stephen M. Kosslyn
Implicit Transfer Of Motor Ssrategies In Mental Rotation, Maryjane Wraga, William L. Thompson, Nathaniel M. Alpert, Stephen M. Kosslyn
Psychology: Faculty Publications
Recent research indicates that motor areas are activated in some types of mental rotation. Many of these studies have required participants to perform egocentric transformations of body parts or whole bodies; however, motor activation also has been found with nonbody objects when participants explicitly relate the objects to their hands. The current study used positron emission tomography (PET) to examine whether such egocentric motor strategies can be transferred implicitly from one type of mental rotation to another. Two groups of participants were tested. In the Hand-Object group, participants performed imaginal rotations of pictures of hands; following this, they then made …