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Direct linkBorella, Erika; Meneghetti, Chiara; Ronconi, Lucia; De Beni, Rossana – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The study investigates age-related effects across the adult life span on spatial abilities (testing subabilities based on a distinction between spatial visualization, mental rotation, and perspective taking) and spatial self-assessments. The sample consisted of 454 participants (223 women and 231 men) from 20 to 91 years of age. Results showed…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Visualization
Almeida, Renita A.; Dickinson, J. Edwin; Maybery, Murray T.; Badcock, Johanna C.; Badcock, David R. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
The Embedded Figure Test (EFT) requires locating a simple shape embedded within a background of overlapping target-irrelevant scene elements. Observers with autism, or those with high levels of autistic-like traits, typically outperform matched comparison groups on the EFT. This research investigated the critical visual properties which give rise…
Descriptors: Autism, Scores, Matched Groups, Visual Perception
Rittschof, Kent A. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2010
Field dependence-independence (FDI) has long been conceptualized and discussed as a cognitive style relevant to numerous educational approaches and outcomes. However, the FDI construct is most often measured as a cognitive ability, as opposed to a style, using instruments such as the Group-Embedded Figures test (GEFT) or the Hidden Figures Test…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Short Term Memory, Instructional Systems
Kaland, Nils; Mortensen, Erik Lykke; Smith, Lars – Autism: The International Journal of Research & Practice, 2007
The aim of the present study was to assess the findings, reported in earlier studies, that individuals with autism spectrum disorders process visuo-spatial tasks faster than typically developing control persons. The participants in the present study were children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome (AS) or high-functioning autism (HFA) (N =…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Cognitive Tests
Shah, A.; Frith, U. – Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1983
Explores the relationship between visuo-spatial skills and the ability to attend to perceptual detail in 20 autistic, 20 normal, and 20 mildly retarded children of comparable mental age. Test material from the Children's Embedded Figures Test was used. Autistic children, using qualitatively different strategies, were significantly more competent…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Download full textPearson, Jane L.; Ialongo, Nicholas S. – 1984
The ecological validity of three spatial ability tests was studied: The Embedded Figures Test, the Shepard/Metzler Mental Rotations Test, and the Differential Aptitude Spatial Relations subtest. The Building Memory Test was also examined in an attempt to replicate a previous study which supported its validity. These four tests were administered to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education, Locational Skills (Social Studies)
Peer reviewedWatson, J. Allen; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1992
Describes a study that examined preschoolers' abilities to learn problem solving with LOGO, learn new strategies to use during problem solving, and transfer computer learning to other settings. Differences in the effectiveness of LOGO learning for field-dependent versus field-independent learning styles are discussed. (65 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Field Dependence Independence, Hypothesis Testing
