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The Global-Local Mental Rotation in Divided Attention Paradigm

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Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2013)

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The present study addressed to explore whether precedence of the global rotation over the local rotation existed in a normal/mirror judgment task with divided-attention paradigm. Subjects had to decide whether or not a normal letter appeared at either level of a compound stimulus, Each level of compound stimulus could be rotated 0°, 60°, 120° or 180° separately. The results showed that : The RT and ACC were changed linearly with rotation angle, and the global rotation was faster and more accurately than local rotation. which provided convergent evidence for our previous finding using a focused-attention paradigm. Our findings were discussed in terms of the mechanism of global advantage on mental rotation.

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  1. Students’ Psychological Quality Education Center, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Yong Niu

  2. School of Child Development and Education, China Women’s University, Beijing, China

    Xiang Qiu

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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation, The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, 100190, Beijing, China

    Derong Liu  & Dongbin Zhao  & 

  2. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Cesare Alippi

  3. Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Stirling, UK

    Amir Hussain

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Niu, Y., Qiu, X. (2013). The Global-Local Mental Rotation in Divided Attention Paradigm. In: Liu, D., Alippi, C., Zhao, D., Hussain, A. (eds) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7888. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_4

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