Purpose: The purpose was (1) to test a new version of a mental rotation task (MRT), which
assesses mental rotation abilities of men and women for sport-specific items, and (2) to …

Spatial abilities support us in navigating and understanding the space that our world
consists of. They are educationally relevant through their specific link to mathematical …

The primary goal of this dissertation was to understand to what extent are humans capable
of accurately perceiving both their own rotations and the rotations of others and how do …

An extensive body of literature has explored the involvement of motor processes in mental
rotation, yet underlying individual differences are less documented and remain to be fully …

In a classic psychological science experiment, Shepard and Metzler (1971) discovered that
the time participants took to judge whether two rotated abstract block figures were identical …

The present experiment investigated sex differences across stimulus types in a chronometric
mental rotation task. The working hypothesis was that human bodies as stimuli would …

References: Fitzhugh, S., Shipley, TF, Newcombe, N., McKenna, K., & Dumay, D.(2008).
Mental rotation of real word Shepard-Metzler figures: An eye tracking study. Journal of …

Although there is good evidence that mental rotation is an analog process, the question of
whether objects are rotated holistically or piecemeal has remained controversial. This study …

ABSTRACT Purpose: The purpose was (1) to test a new version of a mental rotation task
(MRT), which assesses mental rotation abilities of men and women for sport-specific items …

The mental rotation literature commonly reports a sex difference, almost always favoring
men. Two strategies have been proposed in the literature to account for this difference …