Examined the effects of gender and sports participation on spatial imagery ability. 48 adults
(aged 18-37 yrs) completed a modified version of the mental rotation test (R. Shepard and J …

As a group, males reliably perform better than females in tasks that involve analysis of real
or imagined movement, such as mental rotation and targeting. Based upon results from …

Studying physical rotation (ie, rotation tasks during which figures can be physically rotated,
such as through gestures) can offer insights also into problem solving processes at work …

Males generally achieve higher levels of performance than females on mental rotation tasks
(Linn & Petersen, 1985, Voyer, Voyer, & Bryden, 1995); though the factors which contribute …

Abstract Twenty-four old (M= 70.9 years) and 24 young (M= 21.7 years) adults performed a
mental rotation task in which stimuli were pairs of three-dimensional objects (toy cowboy …

Im Sport, insbesondere in kompositorischen Sportarten, finden häufig
Rotationsbewegungen statt. Untersuchungen haben gezeigt, dass Sportler* innen aufgrund …

Thema dieser Arbeit ist es, den Zusammenhang zwischen motorischen bzw. sportlichen
Fähigkeiten und visuell-räumlichen Fähigkeiten zu untersuchen. Speziell wird die …

The present study examined the differential effects of kinesthetic imagery (first person
perspective) and visual imagery (third person perspective) on postural sway during quiet …

Mental rotation is the ability to imagine how an object will look if rotated away from the
orientation in comparison with the one which is actually presented. That is a component of …

On tasks that require the mental rotation of 3-dimensional figures, males typically exhibit
higher accuracy than females. Using the most common measure of mental rotation (ie, the …