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Paper

1971

Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects

Roger N. Shepard & Jacqueline Metzler

The time to judge whether two drawings show the same rotated object rises linearly with the angle between them, showing that a mental image is manipulated as a continuous spatial representation rather than inspected like a static picture.

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Statistics of Mental ImageryFrancis Galton, 1880A survey of how vividly people can picture a scene in the mind's eye finds the ability varies enormously between individuals, including scientists who reported almost none at all.

Filed under Cognitive Psychology in Psychology.