Revisiting mental rotation with stereoscopic disparity : A new spin for a classic paradigm

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To understand how the presence of stereoscopic disparity influences cognitive and neural processing, we recorded participants' behavior and scalp electrical activity while they performed a mental rotation task. Participants wore active shutter 3D goggles, allowing us to present stimuli with or without stereoscopic disparity on a trial-by-trial basis. Participants were more accurate and faster when stimuli were presented with stereoscopic disparity. This improvement in performance was accompanied by changes in neural activity recorded from scalp electrodes at parietal and occipital regions; stereoscopic disparity produced earlier P2 peaks, larger N2 amplitudes, and earlier, smaller P300 peak amplitudes. The presence of stereoscopic disparity also produced greater neural entropy at occipital electrode sites, and lower entropy at frontal sites. These findings suggest that the nature of the benefit afforded by stereoscopic disparity occurs at both low-level perceptual processing and higher-level cognitive processing, and results in more accurate and rapid performance.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:136

Enthalten in:

Brain and cognition - 136(2019) vom: 01. Nov., Seite 103600

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Burles, Ford [VerfasserIn]
Lu, James [VerfasserIn]
Slone, Edward [VerfasserIn]
Cortese, Filomeno [VerfasserIn]
Iaria, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
Protzner, Andrea B [VerfasserIn]

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3D
Depth perception
EEG
ERP
Journal Article
MSE
PLS
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 12.03.2020

Date Revised 12.03.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bandc.2019.103600

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NLM301584745