Influence of rotational axis and gender-stereotypical nature of rotation stimuli on the mental-rotation performance of male and female fifth graders.

Autor/inn/en	Neuburger, Sarah; Heuser, Vera; Jansen, Petra; Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia
Titel	Influence of rotational axis and gender-stereotypical nature of rotation stimuli on the mental-rotation performance of male and female fifth graders.
Quelle	Aus: Stachniss, Cyrill (Hrsg.); Schill, Kerstin (Hrsg.); Uttal, David (Hrsg.): Spatial cognition VIII. International conference, spatial cognition 2012, Kloster Seeon, August 31 - September 3, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (2012) S. 220-229 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-3-642-32731-5
DOI	10.1007/978-3-642-32732-2_15
Schlagwörter	Vergleichsuntersuchung; Stereotyp; Gedächtnis; Kognition; Kognitionspsychologie; Kognitive Leistung; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Räumliche Wahrnehmung; Psychologischer Test; Test; Junge; Schüler; Differenzierung; Gehirn; Rotation; Geschlechtsspezifik; Mädchen
Abstract	The male advantage in the mental rotation of two- or three-dimensional objects in mind is well documented across various age groups. The current study examined the influence of task characteristics on this gender difference by comparing the mental rotation performance of 148 fifth-grade boys and girls in three stimulus conditions (male-stereotyped objects, female-stereotyped objects, Shepard and Metzler's cube figures) and two rotational-axis conditions (rotations in picture plane only vs. rotations in depth). In line with the hypotheses, boys slightly outperformed girls in the in-depth condition, but not in the picture-plane condition. Unexpectedly, however, boys tended to outperform girls in the female-objects task. Overall, results suggest that rotational axis is more influential in determining the gender difference than the stereotyped nature of the stimuli. Findings are discussed with regard to the influence of working memory on mental rotation. Verf.-Referat.
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2014/4