“…Examples include: the relationship between spatial abilities (including MRT performance), mental model formation, and a sense of presence in an immersive VE (IVE) (Coxon et al, 2016), the importance of spatial ability (measured through MRT performance) for spatial knowledge acquisition through AR interface use (Hedley, 2003), the role that mental rotation skills play in real-world wayfinding (Malinowski, 2001) and map-based route learning (Çöltekin et al, 2018), the importance of spatial ability (mental rotation) and visuospatial memory in virtual navigation (Lokka and Arzu, 2019), and the impact that spatial abilities (including MRT performance) have on map learning (Sanchez and Branaghan, 2009). Outside the realm of geovisualization, the MRT has been applied in a similar fashion to: evaluate the role of spatial thinking in STEM fields (Hegarty et al, 2014), to study the importance of spatial ability in learning from 3D cell biology models (Huk, 2006), and to explore the relationship between biological sex and mental rotation ability (Casey and Brabeck, 1989;Collins and Kimura, 1997;Hoyek et al, 2012;Moè, 2012;Debelak et al, 2014).…”