Spatial anxiety mediates the sex difference in adult mental rotation test performance

D Alvarez-Vargas, C Abad, SM Pruden - Cognitive research: principles …, 2020 - Springer
Mental rotation ability is associated with successful advances in STEM (science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics) education and occupations. Meta-analyses have shown …

“You did a great job building that!” Links between parent–child prosocial talk and spatial language.

LTV Hall, M Rengel, H Bowley… - Developmental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
We investigated the extent to which parents' prosocial talk and negations relate to the
quantity and diversity of parents' spatial language production. We also examined similar …

Spatial thinking: Why it belongs in the preschool classroom.

C Pritulsky, C Morano, R Odean, C Bower… - Translational Issues …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Children's early spatial thinking abilities are predictive of their later STEM (science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics) achievement. While research has primarily …

Gender differences in mothers' spatial language use and children's mental rotation abilities in Preschool and Kindergarten

YK Ralph, K Berinhout, MJ Maguire - Developmental Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mental rotation has emerged as an important predictor of success in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math (STEM). By the age of 4.5 years, boys outperform girls in these …

Karinna A. Rodriguez, Nick Mattox, Carlos Desme, LaTreese V. Hall

Y Wu, SM Pruden - Advances in Child Development and …, 2024 - books.google.com
Abstract According to the Relational Developmental Systems perspective, the development
of individual differences in spatial thinking (eg, mental rotation, spatial reorientation, and …

Individual differences in preschoolers' spatial thinking: Comprehension of dimensional adjectives and their relation to children's performance on non‐verbal spatial …

R Odean, C Abad, Y Ralph… - Infant and Child …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The current study explores whether individual differences in the dimensional adjectives (eg,
big, tall) children understand, relates to individual differences in two non‐verbal spatial …

The development of early spatial thinking

C Abad - 2018 - digitalcommons.fiu.edu
The different spatial experiences in the lives of young boys and girls may partly explain sex
differences in spatial skills (Baenninger & Newcombe, 1995; Nazareth et al., 2013; …

Harnessing technology to measure individual differences in spatial thinking in early childhood from a relational developmental systems perspective.

KA Rodriguez, N Mattox, C Desme, LV Hall… - Advances in Child …, 2024 - europepmc.org
According to the Relational Developmental Systems perspective, the development of
individual differences in spatial thinking (eg, mental rotation, spatial reorientation, and …

Playing for the Future: Spatial Thinking Belongs in Preschools and Home Environments

E Herbst, T Cruz, CA Bower, K Hirsh-Pasek… - … of Research on …, 2022 - igi-global.com
Spatial skills are fundamental for mentally manipulating objects, visualizing and
remembering the locations of objects and their paths, reconstructing patterns, and …

Infants' and Toddlers' Early Math Interactions in Everyday Contexts

MS Swirbul - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Infants and toddlers experience the world in interaction with others. Likewise, social
interactions are important in learning about math—concepts of number (one, two), space (on …