We conducted what is likely the first large-scale comprehensive eye tracking investigation of
the cognitive processes involved in the psychometric mental rotation task with three …

The aim of the current study was to reexamine previous findings in which the magnitude of
the male advantage in mental rotation abilities increased when participants mentally rotated …

An important question in studies on mental rotation is whether the mental object rotation and
the egocentric body transformation rely on dissociable mechanisms. We tested non-dancers …

It is well established that motor expertise is linked to superior mental rotation ability, but few
studies have attempted to explain the factors that influence the stages of mental rotation in …

A selective effect of motor expertise on mental rotation is revealed by a high correlation
between the performance of sports experts and ability on a mental rotation task. Evidence is …

The aim of this study was to examine whether athletes differ from nonathletes regarding their
mental rotation performance. Furthermore, it investigated whether athletes doing sports …

The goal of the current study was to provide a better understanding of the role of image
familiarity, embodied cognition, and cognitive strategies on sex differences in performance …

Chronometric studies provide strong support that mental imagery recruits perceptual
processes (Shepard & Metzler, 1970; Shepard & Cooper, 1971). Further, there is recent …

Recent experimental evidence (Neely & Heath, 2010) suggests that visuomotor mental
rotation does not rely on a rotation process that occurs just prior to response initiation, but …

This study investigates mental rotation performance of adolescent female dancers and
soccer players in object-based and egocentric mental rotation tasks using human body …