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Jacob L. Lader; Kim V. Nguyen; Nora S. Newcombe – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
Even though successful navigation is vital for survival, individuals vary widely in their navigation skills. Researchers have examined the correlates of such variation using a wide variety of paradigms. However, we know little about the relation among the paradigms used, and their validity for real-world behaviors. In this study, we assessed 94…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Navigation, Spatial Ability, Factor Analysis
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Naeun Lee; Ilho Yang; Seongun Kim – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Many students have difficulty understanding the concept of lunar phase changes (LPCs) due to spatial ability problems such as perspective-taking (PT) and mental rotation (MR). Therefore, this study aimed to compare brain activity during PT and MR tasks while performing the LPC task to determine the involvement of PT and MR. This study measured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Males, Spatial Ability
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Yi Zhang; Yun Pan; Ziyan Wu; Zhongling Pi; Jiumin Yang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Videos are pivotal tools in pre-service teacher training. First-person, third-person, and 360-degree perspectives are commonly used types and the optimal type remains undetermined. In our study involving pre-service teachers (PSTs), we evaluated the efficacy of 360-degree videos against the first-person and third-person perspective videos…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Video Technology, Preservice Teachers
Abha Vaishampayan – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Spatial thinking is important in predicting students' success in STEM fields. However, there is limited knowledge about "how" students learn spatial skills during classroom instruction by using strategies that support their cognition. This dissertation addresses this gap as I explored "spatial sensemaking practices" that…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Thinking Skills
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Xie, Jiushu; Cheung, Him; Shen, Manqiong; Wang, Ruiming – Cognitive Science, 2018
This study examines the spontaneous use of embodied egocentric transformation (EET) in understanding false beliefs in the minds of others. EET involves the participants mentally transforming or rotating themselves into the orientation of an agent when trying to adopt his or her visuospatial perspective. We argue that psychological perspective…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Beliefs, Perspective Taking
Tessa L. Johnson; Alexander P. Burgoyne; Kelly S. Mix; Christopher J. Young; Susan C. Levine – Grantee Submission, 2022
Performance on a range of spatial and mathematics tasks was measured in a sample of 1592 students in kindergarten, third grade, and sixth grade. In a previously published analysis of these data, performance was analyzed by grade only. In the present analyses, we examined whether the relations between spatial skill and mathematics skill differed…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Mathematics Skills, Age Differences, Socioeconomic Status
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Buckley, Jeffrey; Seery, Niall; Canty, Donal – Educational Psychology Review, 2018
An abundance of empirical evidence exists identifying a significant correlation between spatial ability and educational performance particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Despite this evidence, a causal explanation has yet to be identified. Pertinent research illustrates that spatial ability can be developed and…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, STEM Education, Intelligence, Definitions
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Holmes, Corinne A.; Marchette, Steven A.; Newcombe, Nora S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
In the real word, we perceive our environment as a series of static and dynamic views, with viewpoint transitions providing a natural link from one static view to the next. The current research examined if experiencing such transitions is fundamental to learning the spatial layout of small-scale displays. In Experiment 1, participants viewed a…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Perspective Taking, Memory, Cognitive Processes
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McNeal, Peggy; Ellis, Todd; Petcovic, Heather – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
A survey with nine meteorological charts, maps, and images from a 2015 significant weather event was administered to meteorologists (N = 93) to identify which spatial thinking skills they report using with each chart, map, and image. Results reveal high reported use of mental animation (74.6%), disembedding (72.4%), and perspective taking (71.6%)…
Descriptors: Meteorology, Spatial Ability, Charts, Maps
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Janczyk, Markus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
In many situations people need to mentally adopt the (spatial) perspective of other persons, an ability that is referred to as "Level 2 perspective taking." Its underlying processes have been ascribed to mental self-rotation that can be dissociated from mental object-rotation. Recent findings suggest that perspective taking/self-rotation…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Cognitive Processes, Spatial Ability, Visualization
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Pearson, Amy; Marsh, Lauren; Hamilton, Antonia; Ropar, Danielle – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Previous research into autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has shown people with autism to be impaired at visual perspective taking. However it is still unclear to what extent the spatial mechanisms underlying this ability contribute to these difficulties. In the current experiment we examine spatial transformations in adults with ASD and typical…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Spatial Ability
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Yerramsetti, Ashok; Marchette, Steven A.; Shelton, Amy L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Orientation dependence in spatial memory has often been interpreted in terms of accessibility: Object locations are encoded relative to a reference orientation that affords the most accurate access to spatial memory. An open question, however, is whether people naturally use this "preferred" orientation whenever recalling the space. We…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Spatial Ability, Memory, Familiarity
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Mix, Kelly S.; Levine, Susan C.; Cheng, Yi-Ling; Young, Chris; Hambrick, D. Zachary; Ping, Raedy – Grantee Submission, 2016
The relations among various spatial and mathematics skills were assessed in a cross-sectional study of 854 children from kindergarten, third, and sixth grades (i.e., 5 to 13 years of age). Children completed a battery of spatial mathematics tests and their scores were submitted to exploratory factor analyses both within and across domains. In the…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Mathematics Skills, Kindergarten, Grade 3
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Mou, Weimin; Zhou, Ruojing – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Four experiments examined the roles of extended surfaces and the number of points in the boundary superiority effect in goal localization. Participants learned the locations of 4 objects in the presence of a boundary, landmarks, or both in an immersive virtual environment by reproducing the locations with feedback. Participants then localized the…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Feedback (Response), Geographic Location, Memory
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Russell, James; Alexis, Dean; Clayton, Nicola – Cognition, 2010
Assessing children's episodic future thinking by having them select items for future use may be assessing their functional reasoning about the future rather than their future episodic thinking. In an attempt to circumvent this problem, we capitalised on the fact that episodic cognition necessarily has a spatial format ([Clayton and Russell, 2009]…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cognitive Processes, Play, Time Perspective
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