Mental rotation: A task for the assessment of visuospatial skills of children

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 527-536

  Stefanatos, Gerry A ^a   Buchholz, Ester S ^b   Miller, Nancy Fay ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

CHILD; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032039047     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.86.2.527     Document Type: Article

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