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20921110

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-10-5
pubmed:abstractText
We present evidence that different mental spatial transformations are used to reason about three different types of items representing a spectrum of animacy: human bodies, nonhuman animals, and inanimate objects. Participants made two different judgments about rotated figures: handedness judgments ("Is this the left or right side?") and matching judgments ("Are these figures the same?"). Perspective-taking strategies were most prevalent when participants made handedness judgments about human bodies and animals. In contrast, participants generally did not imagine changes in perspective to perform matching judgments. Such results suggest that high-level information about semantic categories, including information about a thing's animacy, can influence how spatial representations are transformed when performing online problem solving. Supplemental materials for this article may be downloaded from http://mc.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1532-5946
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
982-93
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
The role of animacy in spatial transformations.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. alfredyu@wustl.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.