Hegarty, M. (1992). Mental animation: Inferring motion from static diagrams of mechanical systems .
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 18(5) 1084-1102
Reaction-time and eye-fixation data are analyzed to investigate how people infer the kinematics of simple mechanical systems (pulley systems) from diagrams showing their static configuration.
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