Gender Differences in the Mental Rotations Test (MRT) Are Not Due to Task Complexity

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 130-133

  Titze, Corinna ^a   Heil, Martin ^a   Jansen, Petra ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

gender differences; mental rotation; task complexity; visual spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 56849115122     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001.29.3.130     Document Type: Article

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