Features of Mental Rotation of Two-Dimensional Objects of Different Types in the Frontal Plane | Sibirskiy Psikhologicheskiy Zhurnal – Siberian Journal of Psychology. 2025. № 98. DOI: 10.17223/17267080/98/2

Features of Mental Rotation of Two-Dimensional Objects of Different Types in the Frontal Plane

This research is a study of the mental rotation of 3 types of two-dimensional stimuli: verbalized, difficult-to-visualize single figures and visual rhythms, in order to identify significant factors affecting the correctness and speed of processing visual information of each type of stimuli. All stimuli were presented with 4 angles of rotation in the frontal plane: 30, 45, 90, 180°. Three age groups participated in the research: children from 5 to 8 (who are not in school), primary schoolchildren from 7 to 12 and adults 18 plus, with a total of 87 participants. The paper establishes a nonlinear dynamics of the time change for solving the problem of mental rotation with an increase in the angle of rotation of the figures: the shortest time was observed at an angle of 45 degrees, then it increased with an increase in the angle of rotation, and with an angle of rotation of 30 degrees, the reaction time was more then at 45 degrees. The interaction of factors such as the stimulus and the angle of rotation was also found to have a significant effect on the time needed to solve the problem: for different types of stimuli, the trajectory of the decision time depending on the angle of rotation has different curvature. It was revealed that the presence of a visual rhythm in the stimulus can significantly increase the response time at a rotation angle of 180 degrees. Since significant differences in the number of errors between preschoolers and younger schoolchildren was identified, the fact of age-related development of the mental rotation function was confirmed. In primary school children this function sufficiently develops. The data obtained will be useful in the development of visual communication tools and diagnostic techniques.

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visual perception, series of figures, mental rotation, two-dimensional objects, visual rhythms, spatial abilities, age development, speed of perception, perception errors

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Name	Organization	E-mail
Galeeva Yana A.	Dubna State University	yanna_mail@mail.ru
Goncharov Oleg A.	Dubna State University	gonchar1000@gmail.com

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