Negen, J (2025) Mental Rotation, Perspective Taking, and Performance Profiling. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782

Preview

Text Mental Rotation, Perspective Taking, and Performance Profiling.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (868kB) | Preview

Abstract

In spatial cognition, we conventionally draw a typological distinction between mental rotation (intrinsic, object movement) versus perspective taking (extrinsic, self movement). This paper re-examines a previous finding which could indicate that fundamentally different cognitive processes are reflected in these tasks. Specifically, performance as a function of rotation magnitude is a linear profile for mental rotation but a notched profile for perspective taking. Experiment 1 conceptually replicates this, finding a task by rotation magnitude interaction with more participants, more trials, and updated statistical controls. Experiment 2 extends the previous analysis to verify that the two performance profiles are genuinely different shapes rather than different effect sizes. Together these help confirm that mental rotation and perspective taking reflect fundamentally different cognitive processes, thus justifying their central focus in the typology of spatial cognition.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1701 Psychology; 1702 Cognitive Sciences; 2203 Philosophy; Experimental Psychology; 3209 Neurosciences; 5202 Biological psychology; 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	Psychology (from Sep 2019)
Publisher:	Springer
Related URLs:	https://osf.io/5k6gu/
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	10 Mar 2025 16:51
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2025 16:00
DOI or ID number:	10.1007/s10339-025-01269-6
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25840

View Item