Sex-specific response strategies in mental rotation

Hirnstein, Marco; Bayer, Ulrike; Hausmann, Markus

doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2008.11.006

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“…The current study found that the exponent values were larger overall for females than for males, suggesting that females were less reliant on a mental rotation strategy to decide if rotated objects would face to the left or to the right when imagined at the upright. This finding is consistent with research suggesting that strategy differences exist on mental rotation tasks when comparing the performances of males and females (Butler et al, 2006;Heil & Jansen-Osmann, 2008;Hirnstein, Bayer, & Hausmann, 2009). While these sex difference findings are interesting, they are presented with caution as the group sizes were small when comparing the parameters of males and females.…”

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Asymmetric response time functions during left-/right-facing discriminations of rotated objects: The short and the long of it

Searle

Hamm

2015

Mem Cogn

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When deciding if a rotated object would face to the left or to the right, if imagined at the upright, mental rotation is typically assumed to be carried out through the shortest angular distance to the upright prior to determining the direction of facing. However, the response time functions for left-and right-facing objects are oppositely asymmetric, which is not consistent with the standard explanation. Using Searle and Hamm's individual differences adaption of Kung and Hamm's Mixture Model, the current study compares the predicted response time functions derived when assuming that objects are rotated through the shortest route to the upright with the predicted response time functions derived when assuming that objects are rotated in the direction they face. The latter model provides a better fit to the majority of the individual data. This allows us to conclude that, when deciding if rotated objects would face to the left or to the right if imagined at the upright, mental rotation is carried out in the direction that the objects face and not necessarily in the shortest direction to the upright. By comparing results for mobile and immobile object sets we can also conclude that semantic information regarding the mobility of an object does not appear to influence the speed of mental rotation, but it does appear to influence pre-rotation processes and the likelihood of employing a mental rotation strategy.

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Asymmetric response time functions during left-/right-facing discriminations of rotated objects: The short and the long of it

Searle

Hamm

2015

Mem Cogn

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“…Also, a significant main effect was found of gender, F(1, 1) = 553.5, p = .03. Male participants performed better than the female participants, which is in line with other research 23 . See Table 4 for an overview of the mean accuracy of estimating the spatial layout of the SE.…”

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Synthetic environments as visualization method for product design

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In this paper, we explored the use of low fidelity Synthetic Environments (SE; i.e., a combination of simulation techniques) for product design. We explored the usefulness of low fidelity SE to make design problems explicit. In particular, we were interested in the influence of interactivity on user experience. For this purpose, an industrial design case was taken: the innovation of an airplane galley. A virtual airplane was created in which an interactive model of the galley was placed. First, three groups of participants explored the SE in different conditions: Participants explored the SE interactively (Interactive condition), watched a recording (Passive Dynamic condition), or watched static images (Passive Static condition). Afterwards, participants were tested in a questionnaire on how accurately they had memorized the spatial layout of the SE. The results revealed that interactive SE does not necessarily provoke participants to memorize spatial layouts more accurately. However, the effect of interactive learning is dependent on the participants' Visual Spatial Ability (VSA). Consequently, this finding supports use of interactive exploration of prototypes through low fidelity SE for the product design cycle when taking the individual's characteristics into account.

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“…Also, a significant main effect was found of gender, F(1, 1) = 553.5, p = .03. Male participants performed better than the female participants, which is in line with other research (Hirnstein, Bayer, & Hausmann, 2009). See Table 4 for an overview of the mean accuracy of estimating the spatial layout of the SE.…”

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Spatial cognition in synthetic environments

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Sex-specific response strategies in mental rotation

Cited by 40 publications

References 25 publications

Asymmetric response time functions during left-/right-facing discriminations of rotated objects: The short and the long of it

Asymmetric response time functions during left-/right-facing discriminations of rotated objects: The short and the long of it

Synthetic environments as visualization method for product design

Spatial cognition in synthetic environments

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