High-level visual-spatial ability for novices correlates with performance in a visual-spatial complex surgical simulator task

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1275-1280

  Hedman, L ^a   Strom P ^a   Andersson, P ^b   Kjellin, A ^a   Wredmark, T ^a   Fellander Tsai L ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Image guided surgery; Simulator training; Skill acquisition; Visual spatial ability performance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASIQ TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MENTAL ROTATION TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RESIDENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATOR; SKILL; SURGICAL SIMULATOR; SWEDEN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747479792     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0036-6     Document Type: Article

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