Mental rotation and line angle judgment performance were assessed in more than 90,000
women and 111,000 men from 53 nations. In all nations, men's mean performance …

Method We studied MRT performance in 804 twins (mean age= 22.39 years, SD= 0.62) from
the population-based FinnTwin12 study (Kaprio, Pulkkinen, & Rose, 2002). There were 351 …

Spatial abilities refer to the cognitive processes involved in locating targets in space,
perceiving distance and directional relationships, and mentally transforming objects with …

Whereas a gender effect favouring males in adults' mental rotation performance can be
reliably found, the respective gender effect in children's performance does not appear …

Anecdotal evidence indicates that dyslexia is positively associated with superior visuospatial
ability but empirical evidence is inconsistent. We explicitly tested the hypothesis that …

There is strong evidence of sex differences in mental rotation tasks. Transsexualism is an
extreme gender identity disorder in which individuals seek cross-gender treatment to …

It is well established that performance on standard mental rotation tasks improves with
training (Peters et al., 1995), but thus far there is little consensus regarding the degree of …

We report a user study which compared four virtual environment travel techniques using a
divided attention task. Participants used either real walking, gaze-directed, pointing-directed …

The cognitive process of imaging an object turning around is called mental rotation. Many
studies have been put forward analyzing mental rotation by means of event-related …

Individual differences in solution strategies have frequently been reported for different
measures of mental rotation (MR) ability. In the present study (N= 346 German students), we …