Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects

作者：Roger N. Shepard, Jacqueline Metzler · 发表于：Science · 年份：1971 · DOI：10.1126/science.171.3972.701 · 被引用次数：6320 · 研究领域：Spatial Cognition and Navigation、Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

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.