Are people with high and low mental rotation abilities differently susceptible to the alignment effect?

F Pazzaglia, R De Beni - Perception, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
We investigated whether the alignment effect (Levine et al, 1982 Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General 111 157–175) is influenced by mental rotation abilities. In two …

Gender, level of spatial ability, and lateralization of mental rotation

D Voyer, MP Bryden - Brain and Cognition, 1990 - Elsevier
The present study indicates that some of the inconsistencies in studies of the lateralization of
mental rotation may be a consequence of uncontrolled individual differences in the general …

The effect of landmark features on mental rotation times

J Hochberg, L Gellman - Memory & Cognition, 1977 - Springer
The effect of landmark features on mental rotation times Page 1 Memory & Cognition 1977,
Vol. 5 (1), 23·26 The effect of landmark features on mental rotation times JULIAN HOCHBERG …

Effect of practice on laterality in a mental rotation task

D Voyer - Brain and Cognition, 1995 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of practice on the lateralization
of mental rotation skills. Forty-six females and 46 males completed four blocks of 64 trials in …

Manual training of mental rotation in children

G Wiedenbauer, P Jansen-Osmann - Learning and instruction, 2008 - Elsevier
When deciding whether two stimuli rotated in space are identical or mirror reversed, subjects
employ mental rotation to solve the task. In children mental rotation can be trained by …

Cognitive coordinate systems: accounts of mental rotation and individual differences in spatial ability.

MA Just, PA Carpenter - Psychological review, 1985 - psycnet.apa.org
Strategic differences in spatial tasks can be explained in terms of different cognitive
coordinate systems that subjects adopt. The strategy of mental rotation that occurs in many …

The mental rotation of map displays

AJ Aretz, CD Wickens - Human performance, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
This article describes two experiments that investigate the cognitive processes used during
map reading. The experiments examine the hypothesis that local-ization using a map is the …

Think spatial: The representation in mental rotation is nonvisual.

HR Liesefeld, HD Zimmer - Journal of experimental psychology …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
For mental rotation, introspection, theories, and interpretations of experimental results imply
a certain type of mental representation, namely, visual mental images. Characteristics of the …

Type of items and the magnitude of gender differences on the Mental Rotations Test.

D Voyer, J Hou - Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
On dit que le test de rotations mentales (TRM) produit les différences entre les sexes les
plus prononcées dans les aptitudes spatiales. Dans ce test, nous montrons aux participants …

Alignment effect: primary–secondary learning and cognitive styles

R Nori, S Grandicelli, F Giusberti - Perception, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
The degree to which the way of learning spatial information (primary/secondary learning)
and spatial cognitive style (landmark/route/survey) affect orientation specificity (alignment …