The role of motor processes in three-dimensional mental rotation: Shaping cognitive processing via sensorimotor experience

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 354-359

  Moreau, David ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Mental rotation; Motor processes; Motor skill expertise; Visuospatial working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859860303     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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