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Moreau, David – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
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 understood. We propose that sensorimotor experience shapes spatial abilities such as assessed in mental rotation tasks. Elite wrestlers' and non-athletes' mental…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Reactions
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Arendasy, Martin; Sommer, Markus; Hergovich, Andreas; Feldhammer, Martina – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The gender difference in three-dimensional mental rotation is well documented in the literature. In this article we combined automatic item generation, (quasi-)experimental research designs and item response theory models of change measurement to evaluate the effect of the ability to extract the depth information conveyed in the two-dimensional…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Gender Differences, Quasiexperimental Design
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Geary, David C. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The collection of articles in this special issue and related studies over the past decade provides a fine example of the substantial progress that has been made in our understanding and remediation of mathematical learning disabilities and difficulties since 1993 (Geary, 1993). The originally proposed procedural and retrieval deficits have been…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Learning Disabilities, Short Term Memory, Neuropsychology
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Hegarty, Mary; Keehner, Madeleine; Khooshabeh, Peter; Montello, Daniel R. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
In two studies with a total of 324 participants, dentistry students were assessed on psychometric measures of spatial ability, reasoning ability, and on new measures of the ability to infer the appearance of a cross-section of a three-dimensional (3-D) object. We examined how these abilities and skills predict success in dental education programs,…
Descriptors: Dental Schools, Dentistry, Anatomy, Spatial Ability
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Gyselinck, Valerie; Meneghetti, Chiara; De Beni, Rossana; Pazzaglia, Francesca – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
This study investigated the construction of a spatial model in relation to working memory (WM) and visuospatial abilities. Participants were trained to use either imagery or verbal strategies to process route spatial texts. Results obtained on a free recall task, a verification test and a graphic representation task showed the beneficial effect of…
Descriptors: Children, Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability, Models
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Meneghetti, Chiara; Gyselinck, Valerie; Pazzaglia, Francesca; De Beni, Rossana – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
The present study investigates the relation between spatial ability and visuo-spatial and verbal working memory in spatial text processing. In two experiments, participants listened to a spatial text (Experiments 1 and 2) and a non-spatial text (Experiment 1), at the same time performing a spatial or a verbal concurrent task, or no secondary task.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Group Testing, Visualization, Short Term Memory