title: Eye movements during mental rotation of nonmirrored and mirrored three-dimensional abstract objects.
abstract: Eye movements were recorded while participants (N = 56) rotated mirrored and nonmirrored abstract, three-dimensional object pairs into different orientations to assess whether there were oculomotoric differences in fixation switches between mirrored and nonmirrored objects and how an object's plane and depth angle affected visual processing. Compared to other studies, especially depth rotation tasks were responsible for a difference in the sum of fixation switches. This difference seemed to be caused by an increase in incongruent fixation switches, while congruent ones remained stable. Theoretical and practical implications of findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. Markus.Martini@uibk.ac.at
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martini
authors.forename: Marco R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Furtner
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sachse
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003867:Depth Perception; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011340:Problem Solving; D013028:Space Perception; D055815:Young Adult