Sex differences in mental rotation tasks: Not just in the mental rotation process!

AP Boone, M Hegarty - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The paper-and-pencil Mental Rotation Test (Vandenberg & Kuse, 1978) consistently
produces large sex differences favoring men (Voyer, Voyer, & Bryden, 1995). In this task …

Strengthening spatial reasoning: Elucidating the attentional and neural mechanisms associated with mental rotation skill development

KC Moen, MR Beck, SM Saltzmann, TM Cowan… - … research: principles and …, 2020 - Springer
Spatial reasoning is a critical skill in many everyday tasks and in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics disciplines. The current study examined how training on …

Uncovering the cognitive processes underlying mental rotation: An eye-movement study

J Xue, C Li, C Quan, Y Lu, J Yue, C Zhang - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Mental rotation is an important paradigm for spatial ability. Mental-rotation tasks are
assumed to involve five or three sequential cognitive-processing states, though this has not …

[HTML][HTML] Scene context automatically drives predictions of object transformations

G Aldegheri, S Gayet, MV Peelen - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
As our viewpoint changes, the whole scene around us rotates coherently. This allows us to
predict how one part of a scene (eg, an object) will change by observing other parts (eg, the …

The impact of presentation modes on mental rotation processing: a comparative analysis of eye movements and performance

P Stark, E Bozkir, W Sójka, M Huff, E Kasneci… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Mental rotation is the ability to rotate mental representations of objects in space. Shepard
and Metzler's shape-matching tasks, frequently used to test mental rotation, involve …

A new spin on spatial cognition in ADHD: A diffusion model decomposition of mental rotation

JS Feldman, C Huang-Pollock - Journal of the international …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Objectives: Multiple studies have found evidence of task non-specific slow drift rate in
ADHD, and slow drift rate has rapidly become one of the most visible cognitive hallmarks of …

Titrating decision processes in the mental rotation task.

A Provost, A Heathcote - Psychological Review, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Shepard and Metzler's (1971) seminal mental-rotation task—which requires
participants to decide if 1 object is a rotated version of another or its mirror image—has …

Association between pupil dilation and implicit processing prior to object recognition via insight

Y Suzuki, T Minami, S Nakauchi - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Insight refers to the sudden conscious shift in the perception of a situation following a period
of unconscious processing. The present study aimed to investigate the implicit neural …

Mental rotation performance and circadian chronotype in university students: a preliminary study

M Nishida, H Ando, Y Murata… - Biological Rhythm …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The present study aimed to explore the influence of the chronotype on mental rotation
performance in university students. Using the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire …

The time course of planar and non-planar rotations in a letter rotation task

B Zhao, S Della Sala, E Gherri - Biological Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Mental rotation (MR) of character letters requires participants to mentally rotate the letter in
their minds' eyes through a process akin to the physical rotation of the stimulus. It has been …