PMID: 16619952Apr 20, 2006Paper

Are people with high and low mental rotation abilities differently susceptible to the alignment effect?

Perception
Francesca Pazzaglia, Rossana De Beni

Abstract

We investigated whether the alignment effect (Levine et al, 1982 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 111 157-175) is influenced by mental rotation abilities. In two experiments, groups of undergraduate students with high and low performance in mental rotation tasks were required to study either schematic (experiment 1) or more complex (experiment 2) maps, and to perform a number of pointing tasks adopting a perspective which could be aligned, misaligned (45 degrees, 135 degrees), or counteraligned (180 degrees) with the perspective assumed during learning. Cognitive styles in spatial representation have also been considered. Results of experiment 1 show that people with low performance in mental rotation tasks prefer to adopt a representation of space focused more on landmarks. Their performance in the pointing tasks depends on the alignment conditions, with more errors in the counteraligned condition followed by the two misaligned and aligned ones. In contrast to this, high-ability mental rotators prefer survey and route spatial representations and are affected only by the aligned and non-aligned conditions. In the second experiment, practice was studied as a function of mental rotation and alignment. The group high in...Continue Reading

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Jun 19, 2013·Cognitive Processing·Francesca Pazzaglia, Angelica Moè
Sep 10, 2008·Memory·Gennaro RuggieroTina Iachini
Mar 29, 2013·Cognitive Processing·Valérie GyselinckRossana De Beni
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