Frame Of Reference And Mental Rotation Spatial Cognition Research

Our living space is the basic properties of the material existence, we exercise, find and position ourselves. And then we begin to recognize and explore the world. For the spatial cognitive processes, we will take a different frame of reference,it was based on our own understanding the world around us.Some people also choose objective existence of the things around as his frame of reference to know the world. Those persons’frame of reference for the study of choice, you can recognize the psychological processes of human spatial cognition and space can guide people in real life cognitive activity. Spatial judgments through the frame of reference, we will encounter the rotation, both the actual physical rotation of the body, not an actual physical rotation just mental rotation, both of which we Space judgment will have an impact.In this study,this paper focused on undergraduate and graduate students and more as the research object in Nanning City and use the array experiments on animals (animals in a row test) paradigm. This study also took the choice of reference frame may accept verbal cues, gender, mental rotation and physical rotation factors into account, so the design of the three experimental study on the reference framework. Experiment one:under the nonverbal clues, this paper study college students during spatial cognitive processes in the selected frame of reference type as well as whether there is a difference between girls and boys in an actual physical body rotates. Experiment:this paper explore the oral spatial tendencies and experimental conditions consistent when they are in a real-life situation.The results of this study:1.During physical rotation process, there are significant differences between boys and girls in the choice of the frame of reference. Boys and girls are more inclined to adopt relative reference frame.2. When take the relative frame of reference,they don’t change in body position but they need to complete the judgements made after the spatial orientation of mental rotation basic is not affected; And absolute reference frame, after the completion of mental rotation they make the space of judgment, which are affected by mental rotation and the actual spatial orientation appears certain deviation. 3under the absolute verbal cues, they imagine the body is rotated90degrees, there is significant difference among the participants’ choice of two kinds of frame of reference.they are more inclined to choose to adopt the absolute reference frame.4Under the relative language clues, they were asked to imagine the body rotate90degrees. there is no significant difference between the boys’ choice of reference frame;However, there is significant difference among girls’ choice of two kinds of frame of reference.Girls tend to choose to adopt the absolute reference frame. Relative clues about language, they were asked to imagine the body rotate180degrees, the participants’choice of two kinds of frame of reference are not significant difference.5. The absolute verbal cues, they were asked to imagine the body is rotated90degrees, there was no significant difference in the choice of the two frame of reference. The absolute verbal cues, they were asked to imagine the body to rotate180degrees, there is no significant difference among their choice of two reference framework.6.In Real-life situation participants on the choice of reference frame and reference frame selection has a significant difference in theory, women tend to use relative reference frame, while the boys are more inclined to use a fixed frame of reference.