Do all science disciplines rely on spatial abilities? Preliminary evidence from self-report questionnaires

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6222 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 85-94

  Hegarty, Mary ^a   Crookes, Raymond D ^b   Dara Abrams, Drew ^a   Shipley, Thomas F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

scale; science disciplines; spatial ability; STEM fields; visualization

Indexed keywords

GEOSCIENTISTS; PARTIAL DISSOCIATION; PRELIMINARY DATA; PROFESSIONAL FIELDS; SCALE; SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; SELF-RATINGS; SELF-REPORT; SPATIAL ABILITIES; STEM FIELDS;

SPEECH;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77957096847     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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