Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects
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.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- February 1971
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.171.3972.701
- Bibcode:
- 1971Sci...171..701S