Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects

By Roger N. Shepard, J. Metzler. 1971

Subfields: 3D Vision & Pose, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Extreme Clicking for Efficient Object Annotation (2017, background): “Mental imagery also has a cognitive cost, e.g. in mental rotation experiments, response time is proportional to rotation angle [35, 57].”
Weakly-supervised Disentangling with Recurrent Transformations for 3D View Synthesis (2015, background): “Shepard and Metzler in their mental rotation experiments [23] found that the time taken for humans to match 3D objects from two different views increased proportionally with the angular rotational difference between them.”
View Synthesis by Appearance Flow (2016, background): “For example, one classic experiment demonstrates that people excel at “mental rotation” [2] – predicting what a given object would look like after a known 3D rotation is applied.”
Understanding Deep Features with Computer-Generated Imagery (2015, background): “A potential interesting future direction could be to interpret the viewpoint embeddings relative to classic work on mental rotation [29].”
Manual training of mental rotation in children (2008, methodology): “This demonstrates that the 10 and 11 years old children used mental rotation to perform the task (see Shepard & Metzler, 1971).”
The Relation Between Experience and Spatial Performance in Men and Women (2000, methodology): “The Mental Rotations Test is a paper-and-pencil version of the Shepard and Metzler (1971) mental rotation task using three-dimensional objects.”
Cognitive Offloading. (2016, background): “This behavior is an example of external normalization and can be considered as a means to offload internal normalization, which is an internal transformation (in this case mental rotation) that aligns a representation of a stimulus with a representation stored in memory [26,27,82].”
Cognitive Styles of Music Listening (2008, background): “For example, males were found to outperform females in certain cognitive tasks, which include mental rotation of objects (Shepard & Metzler, 1971), or reading maps (Kimura, 1999).”
Mechanical reasoning by mental simulation. (2004, background): “Evidence for analog imagery processes was first provided by Shepard and Metzler [ 22 ] who showed that mental rotation of objects is analogous to real physical rotation, in the sense that the time to rotate an object mentally is proportional to the angle of rotation.”
Mapping brain asymmetry (2003, unknown): “In the classic Shephard–Metzler 'mental rotation' tas”
Components of Spatial Intelligence (2010, unknown): “The most classic spatial thinking task studied by cognitive psychologists is mental rotation, and a fundamental claim about mental rotation is that it is an analog process, such that the time taken to rotate an image is linearly related to the size of the angle of rotation (Shepard & Metzler, 1971).”
Improved matrix reasoning is limited to training on tasks with a visuospatial component (2013, methodology): “Because tests of Gf are thought to have visuospatial components (van der Ven & Ellis, 2000), the Mental Rotation Test (Shepard & Metzler, 1971; Vandenburg & Kuse, 1978) and the Paper Folding Test (Ekstrom, French, Harman, & Dermen, 1976) were used to test visuospatial abilities.”