Handedness and Mental Rotation

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 641-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark G. McGee
Keyword(s):  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Hand Preference ◽  
Mental Rotation Test ◽  
Rotation Test ◽  
Preference Task

Handedness and mental rotation test scores were examined by sex and generation for 801 individuals in 200 families. An orderly relationship between bilateralization of function on the hand preference task and mental rotation test scores was found.

Covariation of Sex Differences in Mental Rotation with Body Size

2003 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Üner Tan ◽  
Mukadder Okuyan ◽  
Tugba Bayraktar ◽  
Ahmet Akgun
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Sex Difference ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Mental Rotation Test ◽  
Rotation Test ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Weight Number

Sex difference in mental rotation ability was reconsidered. The Vandenberg-Kuse figures were administered to 120 male and 76 female students from the Medical School of BlackSea Technical University in Trabzon, Turkey to assess the mental rotation ability. Students' height and weight were measured. As expected, men outperformed women on this test and had greater height and weight. Number correct on mental rotation test significantly correlated with height and weight for the total sample and for men, but only with weight for women. Using weight as covariate, the sex difference was no longer significant. The mean mental rotation score was significantly higher for heavy women than for light men. There was a positive correlation between weight and mental rotation test scores for heavy women, but height and weight were negatively correlated with mental rotation test scores for light men. These results suggest that there is no sex difference in mental rotation ability as measured.

Stile cognitivo visualizzatore in relazione ad abilitŕ immaginative e spaziali

2010 ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Carolina Mega ◽  
Alessia Canella ◽  
Francesca Pazzaglia
Keyword(s):  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Sono State ◽  
Mental Rotation Test ◽  
Spatial Imagery ◽  
Rotation Test

La presente ricerca si č proposta di esaminare, su un campione italiano, le relazioni esistenti tra stili cognitivi, abilitŕ immaginative e spaziali, e di verificare l'esistenza di differenze di genere. Hanno partecipato all'indagine 86 studenti (52 femmine e 34 maschi) di un Liceo Scientifico di Padova. Lo stile cognitivo č stato valutato attraverso tre strumenti: Verbalizer-Visualizer Questionnaire (Richardson, 1977), Object-Spatial Imagery Questionnaire (Blajenkova O., Kozhevnikov M. e Motes M.A., 2006a), Questionario sullo Stile Cognitivo (Kozhevnikov, Kosslyn e Shepard, 2005). Le abilitŕ immaginative e spaziali sono state indagate attraverso il Questionario sulla Vividezza delle immagini mentali (Marks, 1973) e il Mental Rotation Test (Vandenberg e Kuse, 1978). I risultati hanno evidenziato l'esistenza di due differenti tipologie di stile cognitivo visualizzatore, che presentano specifiche abilitŕ nell'elaborazione delle informazioni: i soggetti spatial, che preferiscono immagini schematiche delle relazioni spaziali tra oggetti, riescono meglio in compiti di abilitŕ spaziale. I soggetti object, invece, ottengono punteggi piů elevati nelle misure di vividezza delle immagini mentali. Inoltre differenze di genere sono state rinvenute nello stile cognitivo spatial, con punteggi piů elevati dei maschi.

scholarly journals Identifying solution strategies in a mental-rotation test with gender-stereotyped objects by analyzing gaze patterns

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Saunders ◽  
Claudia Michaela Quaiser-Pohl
Keyword(s):  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Mental Rotation Test ◽  
Solution Strategies ◽  
Rotation Test ◽  
Gaze Patterns ◽  
Object Parts ◽  
Combined Strategy ◽  
Rotation Strategy

Many studies deal with solution strategies in mental-rotation tests. The approaches range from global analysis, attention to object parts, holistic and piecemeal strategy to a combined strategy. Other studies do not speak of strategies, but of holistic or piecemeal processes or even of holistic or piecemeal rotation. The methodological approach used here is to identify mental-rotation strategies via gaze patterns derived from eye-tracking data when solving chronometric mental-rotation tasks with gender-stereotyped objects. The mental-rotation test consists of 3 male-stereotyped objects (locomotive, hammer, wrench) and 3 female-stereotyped objects (pram, hand mirror, brush) rotated at eight different angles. The sample consisted of 16 women and 10 men (age: M=21.58; SD=4.21). The results of a qualitative analysis with two individual objects (wrench and brush) showed four different gaze patterns. These gaze patterns appeared with different frequency in the two objects and correlated differently with performance and response time. The results indicate either an object-oriented or an egocentric mental-rotation strategy behind the gaze patterns. In general, a new methodological approach has been developed to identify mental-rotation strategies bottom-up which can also be used for other stimulus types.

scholarly journals Mental Rotation Test Performance of Chinese Male and Female University Students

2014 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 41-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Tsui ◽  
Edmond Venator ◽  
Xu Xiaoying
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Mental Rotation Test ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Rotation Test ◽  
Chinese Male
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