Research on the mental rotation task has sparked debate regarding the specific processes
that underly the capability of humans to mentally rotate objects. The spread of reported brain …

Spatial navigation is essential for orienting oneself in familiar and novel environments.
Several internal factors may affect spatial navigation, such as anxiety. This study explored …

Despite extensive research on gender differences in spatial cognition, the potential roles of
affective and situational factors in accounting for these differences remain relatively …

Introduction Mental rotation is an ability that usually displays robust and large gender
differences in favor of boys and men. When participants are told that males outperform …

A recent meta-synthesis study with a sample of> 12 million participants revealed that the
male advantage in mental rotation (MR) is the largest cognitive sex/gender difference found …

The Attentional Control Theory (ACT) posits that, while trait anxiety may not directly impact
performance, it can influence processing efficiency by prompting the use of compensatory …

This article examined people's spatial memory and navigation performance when they
learned an environmental route using a smartphone map and a paper map. Our results …

Spatial anxiety (ie, feelings of apprehension and fear about navigating everyday
environments) can adversely impact people's ability to reach desired locations and explore …

In order to promote students' computational thinking (CT) involving authentic complex
problem-solving competence, there has been encouragement to conduct STEM activities in …

This article describes a novel method for quantifying fixation disparity and evaluates its role
in visuospatial cognition during an authentic learning task, specifically, the determination of …