Two- vs. three-dimensional presentation of mental rotation tasks: Sex differences and effects of training on performance and brain activation

Intelligence

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 529-539

  Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a   Bergner, Sabine ^a   Schatz, Martina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Mental rotation; Mental rotation training; Neural efficiency; Shepard Metzler task; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955927597     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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