Article: Gender differences in three-dimensional mental rotation: a replication.

Article: Dissociating viewpoint costs in mental rotation and ...
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...In a mental rotation task, participants must determine ... the other. The key evidence for mental rotation is the finding of a linear increase ... led many theorists to postulate mental rotation as a key transformational procedure ...

Article: Different strategies do not moderate primary motor cortex ...
Behavioral and Brain Functions;  August 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... brain regions and circuits involved in mental rotation have been studied intensively [2 ... instruction exerts substantial influence on mental rotation performance. Only subjects who were ... showed M1 activation in the subsequent mental rotation task [13]. A single case study ...

Article: Gender differences in brain activation patterns during ...
Psychology Science;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... study three number related tasks and a mental rotation fMRI-paradigm were used to examine ... exact calculation, approximation and mental rotation tasks that demand the use of more ... head-motor mechanisms while solving mental rotation and number related problems. Key ...

Article: Visual working memory as the substrate for mental ...
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...In mental rotation, a mental representation of an ... observers were asked to perform a mental rotation task during the delay interval of ... representations are stored while they undergo mental rotation. More broadly, the nature of the ...

Article: Passive tactile feedback facilitates mental ...
Memory & Cognition;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Mental rotation of objects improves when passive ... The participants were faster at mental rotation when the object was rotated on their ... One interesting subclass of the mental rotation paradigm involves tactile discriminations ...

Article: Object- and direction-specific interference between manual and ...
Perception and Psychophysics;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... specific interference between manual and mental rotation. In comparison with a neutral baseline ... rotation directions generally unpaired the mental rotation of cubes. In contrast, the mental rotation of hands was impaired only by discordant ...

Article: Interactions between the dorsal and the ventral pathways in ...
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... with working memory), in a modified mental rotation task. We manipulated figural complexity ... multiple regions interact to perform mental rotation. The focus of the present study was ... modulated by two variables: the degree of mental rotation and the complexity of the figure being ...