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    Science. 1971 Feb 19;171(3972):701-3.

    Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects.

    Abstract

    The time required to recognize that two perspective drawings portray objects of the same three-dimensional shape is found to be (i) a linearly increasing function of the angular difference in the portrayed orientations of the two objects and (ii) no shorter for differences corresponding simply to a rigid rotation of one of the two-dimensional drawings in its own picture plane than for differences corresponding to a rotation of the three-dimensional object in depth.

    PMID:
    5540314
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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