How spatial abilities enhance, and are enhanced by, dental education

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-70

  Hegarty, Mary ^a   Keehner, Madeleine ^a   Khooshabeh, Peter ^a   Montello, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental education; Mental representations; Spatial abilities; Spatial transformations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449516886     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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