Then I tried putting a face on it. That didn’t work.
On a whim I searched for an image of an apple with a face on it, found one, and found it easy to rotate that imaginary apple and face.
I can imagine drawing a face on an apple, but find it harder to keep it in my brain if I rotate it.
I wonder if the brain has an easier time taking a “snapshot” of something you’ve taken in from eyesight and manipulating it rather than generating an internal image from scratch and holding that image while working with it.
Rotating an apple was easy.
Then I tried putting a face on it. That didn’t work.
On a whim I searched for an image of an apple with a face on it, found one, and found it easy to rotate that imaginary apple and face.
I can imagine drawing a face on an apple, but find it harder to keep it in my brain if I rotate it.
I wonder if the brain has an easier time taking a “snapshot” of something you’ve taken in from eyesight and manipulating it rather than generating an internal image from scratch and holding that image while working with it.