Item type and gender differences on the Mental Rotations Test

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 469-472

  Voyer, Daniel ^a   Doyle, Randi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guessing; Human gender differences; Mental rotation; Spatial abilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956265729     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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