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mental rotation

the ability to mentally manipulate stimuli some degree clockwise or counterclockwise from their normal orientations. This ability was originally measured using a laboratory task, developed by U.S. psychologist Roger Newland Shepard (1929–  ), that required participants to make judgments about stimuli that had been rotated out of their normal orientation.

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secondary sensory ending

secondary sensory ending

see flower-spray ending.