Twisting space: Are rigid and non-rigid mental transformations separate spatial skills?

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 163-173

  Atit, Kinnari ^a   Shipley, Thomas F ^a   Tikoff, Basil ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental transformations; Mental visualizations; Non rigid transformations; Rigid transformations

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL BRITTLE TRANSFORMATION TEST; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL ROTATION; MENTAL ROTATION TEST; MENTAL TASK; MENTAL TEST; NONRIGID BENDING TEST; NONRIGID MENTAL TRANSFORMATION; PAPER FOLDING TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGID MENTAL TRANSFORMATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882727229     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-013-0550-8     Document Type: Article

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