Manual Training of Mental Rotation in Children

Autor/inn/en	Wiedenbauer, Gunnar; Jansen-Osmann, Petra
Titel	Manual Training of Mental Rotation in Children
Quelle	In: Learning and Instruction, 18 (2008) 1, S.30-41 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0959-4752
DOI	10.1016/j.learninstruc.2006.09.009
Schlagwörter	Stimuli; Spatial Ability; Gender Differences; Cognitive Processes; Children; Educational Strategies; Problem Solving + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreizsystem; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Geschlechterkonflikt; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Child; Kind; Kinder; Lehrstrategie; Problemlösen
Abstract	When deciding whether two stimuli rotated in space are identical or mirror reversed, subjects employ mental rotation to solve the task. In children mental rotation can be trained by extensive repetition of the task, but the improvement seems to rely on the retrieval of previously learned stimuli. We assumed that due to the close relation between mental and manual rotation in children a manual training should improve the mental rotation process itself. The manual training we developed indeed ameliorated mental rotation and the training effect was not limited to learned stimuli. While boys outperformed girls in the mental rotation test before the manual rotation training, we found no gender differences in the results of the manual rotation task. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10