TY - JOUR
T1 - Perspective taking in judgment of relative direction tasks
AU - Geva, Danit
AU - Henik, Avishai
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013)/ERC Grant Agreement No. 295644. We would like to thank Ronen Hershman, Naama Katzin, and Desiree Meloul for their professional and generous help. Finally, we thank three research assistants – Tal Feldman, Matanel Weissmann, and Ram Orr – for their help.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
PY - 2019/8/15
Y1 - 2019/8/15
N2 - Mental rotation and visual-spatial perspective taking (VSPT) are two visual-spatial abilities that are highly correlated. Judgment of relative direction (JRD) tasks are commonly used to examine VSPT in conjunction with mental rotation. Moreover, in many studies the task involves switching from an imagined perspective to a sensorimotor perspective at the response phase. The current study employed a JRD task that enabled examination of mental rotation, perspective taking, and perspective switching, separately. In two experiments we found that both perspective taking and perspective switching affected accuracy and response time (RT). Namely, trials with a perspective change larger than 90° (that required perspective taking) were harder than trials with a change smaller than 90° (that required mental rotation), and so were trials that required switching from an imagined perspective to a sensorimotor perspective. Importantly, we suggest that VSPT and mental rotation are dissociable.
AB - Mental rotation and visual-spatial perspective taking (VSPT) are two visual-spatial abilities that are highly correlated. Judgment of relative direction (JRD) tasks are commonly used to examine VSPT in conjunction with mental rotation. Moreover, in many studies the task involves switching from an imagined perspective to a sensorimotor perspective at the response phase. The current study employed a JRD task that enabled examination of mental rotation, perspective taking, and perspective switching, separately. In two experiments we found that both perspective taking and perspective switching affected accuracy and response time (RT). Namely, trials with a perspective change larger than 90° (that required perspective taking) were harder than trials with a change smaller than 90° (that required mental rotation), and so were trials that required switching from an imagined perspective to a sensorimotor perspective. Importantly, we suggest that VSPT and mental rotation are dissociable.
KW - Mental rotation
KW - Mental transformation
KW - Perspective switching
KW - Visual-spatial perspective taking
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U2 - 10.3758/s13421-019-00929-1
DO - 10.3758/s13421-019-00929-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064685468
VL - 47
SP - 1215
EP - 1230
JO - Memory and Cognition
JF - Memory and Cognition
SN - 0090-502X
IS - 6
ER -