Visual and Haptic Mental Rotation
It is well known that visual information can be retained in several types of memory systems. Haptic information can also be retained in a memory because we can repeat a hand movement. There may be a common memory system for vision and action. On the one hand, it may be convenient to have a common sy...
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| author | Satoshi Shioiri Takanori Yamazaki Kazumichi Matsumiya Ichiro Kuriki |
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| description | It is well known that visual information can be retained in several types of memory systems. Haptic information can also be retained in a memory because we can repeat a hand movement. There may be a common memory system for vision and action. On the one hand, it may be convenient to have a common system for acting with visual information. On the other hand, different modalities may have their own memory and use retained information without transforming specific to the modality. We compared memory properties of visual and haptic information. There is a phenomenon known as mental rotation, which is possibly unique to visual representation. The mental rotation is a phenomenon where reaction time increases with the angle of visual target (eg,, a letter) to identify. The phenomenon is explained by the difference in time to rotate the representation of the target in the visual sytem. In this study, we compared the effect of stimulus angle on visual and haptic shape identification (two-line shapes were used). We found that a typical effect of mental rotation for the visual stimulus. However, no such effect was found for the haptic stimulus. This difference cannot be explained by the modality differences in response because similar difference was found even when haptical response was used for visual representation and visual response was used for haptic representation. These results indicate that there are independent systems for visual and haptic representations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-57d946ba20a94109ab0ebc5c574408a42022-12-21T23:45:57ZengSAGE Publishingi-Perception2041-66952011-10-01210.1068/ic82310.1068_ic823Visual and Haptic Mental RotationSatoshi Shioiri0Takanori Yamazaki1Kazumichi Matsumiya2Ichiro Kuriki3Tohoku UniversityTohoku UniversityTohoku UniversityTohoku UniversityIt is well known that visual information can be retained in several types of memory systems. Haptic information can also be retained in a memory because we can repeat a hand movement. There may be a common memory system for vision and action. On the one hand, it may be convenient to have a common system for acting with visual information. On the other hand, different modalities may have their own memory and use retained information without transforming specific to the modality. We compared memory properties of visual and haptic information. There is a phenomenon known as mental rotation, which is possibly unique to visual representation. The mental rotation is a phenomenon where reaction time increases with the angle of visual target (eg,, a letter) to identify. The phenomenon is explained by the difference in time to rotate the representation of the target in the visual sytem. In this study, we compared the effect of stimulus angle on visual and haptic shape identification (two-line shapes were used). We found that a typical effect of mental rotation for the visual stimulus. However, no such effect was found for the haptic stimulus. This difference cannot be explained by the modality differences in response because similar difference was found even when haptical response was used for visual representation and visual response was used for haptic representation. These results indicate that there are independent systems for visual and haptic representations.https://doi.org/10.1068/ic823 |
| spellingShingle | Satoshi Shioiri Takanori Yamazaki Kazumichi Matsumiya Ichiro Kuriki Visual and Haptic Mental Rotation i-Perception |
| title | Visual and Haptic Mental Rotation |
| title_full | Visual and Haptic Mental Rotation |
| title_fullStr | Visual and Haptic Mental Rotation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Visual and Haptic Mental Rotation |
| title_short | Visual and Haptic Mental Rotation |
| title_sort | visual and haptic mental rotation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1068/ic823 |
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