3b Mental Rotation

1. The results obtained in this experiment confirm that the recognition models predict quite well that familiarity or experience plays a prominent role in the recognition of the 3D blocks. It seems that in the rotation of these images familiarity plays a very important role, since it can be assumed that if familiarity is true, then subjects who are familiar with any object or behavior will find it easier to make a mental rotation.
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The results showed the typical effect of mental rotation on response times. There were moments when I could not tell if the shapes were different or the same. As when a rotated object is presented to us, we mentally tend to turn it into its usual position. We first rotate it mentally until it is placed vertically,
and then we rotate it out of the plane again to place it in their normal position being a mirror image.

In relationship to the class the results seemed quite similar in many instances. We see the shape stimuli being straight in many occasions. When we look at an object, the brain is in charge of moving it and rotating it until we understand what they are and give place in space so as to know where they should be or if this image or object has been changed.
3. Everyday activities that might depend on activities based on this coglab is reading and writing. Something we do in everything that we do. The results of this experiment may be useful not only to increase our knowledge about the process of mental rotation, but also to foster a better understanding of the origin of writing errors of patients with dyslexia, a disorder in which writing is confused of symmetric letters such as 'p' and 'q'.