Research by _____ supports the idea that mental imagery preserves the perceptual and physical operations people perform on actual objects.
A)Rosch and Mervin (1975)
B)Shepard and Metzler (1971)
C)Kosslyn, Ball, and Reiser (1978)
D)Shepard and Metzler (1971) and by Kosslyn, Ball, and Reiser (1978)

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Shepard and Metzler (1971) conducted experiments showing that people's time to decide if two objects are the same increases with the angular difference between them, suggesting mental rotation, a perceptual operation. Kosslyn, Ball, and Reiser (1978) demonstrated that the time it takes to mentally scan between two points in an image increases with the distance, indicating that mental imagery preserves spatial characteristics similar to physical objects.

Research by _____ Supports the Idea That Mental Imagery Preserves