心理学报
心理學報
심이학보
Acta Psychologica Sinica
2008年
1期
14~24
,共null页
陶维东 孙弘进 闫京江 周柳
陶維東 孫弘進 閆京江 週柳
도유동 손홍진 염경강 주류
心理旋转 内旋效应 角度效应 自我参照系 物体参照系
心理鏇轉 內鏇效應 角度效應 自我參照繫 物體參照繫
심리선전 내선효응 각도효응 자아삼조계 물체삼조계
mental rotation, in - rotation effect, angle effect, egocentric reference frame, aUocentric referenceframe.
采用虚拟的旋转不同角度左、右手模型,构建“左右手判断(Left and right hand judgment:LR)”任务和“相同-不同判断(same and different judgment:SD)”任务,考察这两种实验任务是否都存在内旋效应和角度效应,以此推论被试采用何种旋转策略。结果发现:(1)两种实验任务结果均表现出显著的角度效应;(2)在LR任务条件下,存在显著的内旋效应,而在SD任务中不存在内旋效应。从而表明当人手图片作为心理旋转材料时,它具有双重角色。被试心理旋转加工时究竞选用何种参照系的旋转策略,与实验材料和实验任务两者都密不可分。
採用虛擬的鏇轉不同角度左、右手模型,構建“左右手判斷(Left and right hand judgment:LR)”任務和“相同-不同判斷(same and different judgment:SD)”任務,攷察這兩種實驗任務是否都存在內鏇效應和角度效應,以此推論被試採用何種鏇轉策略。結果髮現:(1)兩種實驗任務結果均錶現齣顯著的角度效應;(2)在LR任務條件下,存在顯著的內鏇效應,而在SD任務中不存在內鏇效應。從而錶明噹人手圖片作為心理鏇轉材料時,它具有雙重角色。被試心理鏇轉加工時究競選用何種參照繫的鏇轉策略,與實驗材料和實驗任務兩者都密不可分。
채용허의적선전불동각도좌、우수모형,구건“좌우수판단(Left and right hand judgment:LR)”임무화“상동-불동판단(same and different judgment:SD)”임무,고찰저량충실험임무시부도존재내선효응화각도효응,이차추론피시채용하충선전책략。결과발현:(1)량충실험임무결과균표현출현저적각도효응;(2)재LR임무조건하,존재현저적내선효응,이재SD임무중불존재내선효응。종이표명당인수도편작위심리선전재료시,타구유쌍중각색。피시심리선전가공시구경선용하충삼조계적선전책략,여실험재료화실험임무량자도밀불가분。
Mental rotation involves the spatial transformation of the mental image of a physical stimulus. The following two mental rotation tasks have been employed in the literature: (I) left-right or normal - mirror judgment task and (2) the same-different judgnent task. The time taken in making these judgments as well as the errors made often increase with the angttlar difference in orientation between the stimuli, or the difference between imagined and normalized orientation.
Further, mental rotation can be classified into two categories based on the reference flame adopted: egocentric and allocentric, The stimuli representing bodies or body parts such as hands are often considered as a special class of stimuli; this is because when they are used as stimuli in mental rotation tasks, they tend to induce egocentric mental rotation. However, there is no conclusive evidence demonstrating that material of body parts in fact draws forth egocentric mental rotation; more importantly, there has been no evidence demonstrating that the images of body parts can also elicit allocentric mental rotation.
In the current study, using two experimental paradigms (left-right judgment task and same-different judgment task), we explored the possibility of the dissociation of these two processing mechanisms using a special stimulus (hand), which may induce a mental transformation of either the viewer's own body (hand) or the visual display. The stimuli comprised images of the back of the human hands created by a 3D graphics software. Each picture of the hand was presented at an orientation rotated in the medial (in - rotation) or lateral (out - rotation) direction from the uprilaht orientation.
In experiment I, each participant completed a left or right hand judgment task (LR task) when the picture of either a left or right hand was presented. Three factors were manipulated: hands (left hand vs. right hand), the direction of rotation (in - rotation vs. out - rotation), and the magnitude of rotation (45 , 90 , and 135 ). All possible combinations of the different levels of the hands, direction of rotation, and degree of rotation were tested in a within - subject 2 × 2 × 3 completely randomized factorial design. In experiment 2, each participant completed a same or different judgment task (SD task) when the pictures of two hands were presented. In addition to the 3 factors used in experiment 1, there was an additional factor: the match (match vs. no - match). For both experiments, the dependent variables were the reaction time and the errors in the iudgment.
For both experiments, the results indicated that the degree of rotation did have an effect, i.e., the performance decreased as the degree of rotation increased. In addition, for the LR task, for the same magnitude of rotation, the hand when rotated medially (in - rotation) was recognized more quickly and accurately than when rotated laterally (out - rotation). Such an effect of the direction of rotation (we termed it the “in - rotation effect”) was not seen for the SD task. This suggests that the processing of mental rotation in the LR task was limited by the biomechanical constraints of the corresponding physical rotation. Thus, the subjects might have used the egocentric frame of reference in mental rotation for the LR task but the allocentric frame of reference in the SD task. Therefore, the hand stimuli can elicit either egocentric or allocentric mental rotation depending on the experimental task.
These results suggest that participants use different spatial transformation mechanisms in LR (egocentric) and SD (object - centric) tasks. It appears that both the material of the body parts and the paradigms of mental rotation determine the reference frame that the participants adopt; further, we can state that the in - rotation effect might serve as an indicator of the dissociation of egocentric and allocentric mental rotation. Further, the result provided a good method for clarifying the disputation of unitary and multiple - systems models in e~ocentric and allocentric mental rotation.