The roles of stimulus-response compatibility and mental rotation in mirror-image and left-right decisions

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作者
Corballis, MC
Mcmaster, H
机构
[1] Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland
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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE | 1996年 / 50卷 / 04期
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10.1037/1196-1961.50.4.397
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
People were shown rotated letters and timed as they decided (a) whether the letters were normal or backward, or (b) whether a dot was to the left or right of each letter with respect to its upright orientation. In the viewer-centered version of (b), the judgement was to be independent of whether the letter was normal or backward, so that stimulus-response (S-R) compatibility was confounded with angular orientation. In the letter-centered version, the judgement was relative to the letter's own coordinates, so that the confounding between S-R compatibility and orientation was reversed for backward letters. The functions relating RT to angular orientation were parallel across the three tasks, suggesting that S-R compatibility played no role, and that the participants mentally rotated the letters to the upright in each case. A marked increase in RT to backward letters in the letter-centered task suggested a second rotation in depth to restore the letters to normal.
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