Strong biomechanical constraints on young children's mental imagery of hands

Mental rotation (MR) of body parts is a useful paradigm to investigate how people manipulate mental imagery related to body schema. It has been documented that adult participants use ‘motor imagery’ for MR of hands: a behavioural indication is a biomechanical effect, that is, hand pictures in orient...

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Main Authors: Kaoru Sekiyama, Toshiro Kinoshita, Takahiro Soshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2014-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.140118