Kaltner, Sandra and Jansen, Petra (2016) Developmental Changes in Mental Rotation: A Dissociation Between Object-Based and Egocentric Transformations. ADVANCES IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, 12 (2). pp. 67-78. ISSN 1895-1171,
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The present study was conducted to investigate developmental changes of mental rotation performance. We compared children, adults, and older adults regarding their performance in object-based and egocentric transformations. Both children and older adults showed higher overall reaction times compared to adults. Results were interpreted against the background of impaired working memory capacity in both children and older adults. Since mental changes in working memory are mediated by age differences in cognitive processing speed, cognitive speed is supposed to be the underlying factor. Regarding both types of transformations, an advantage of egocentric over object-based human figures was only found in adults which led us to tentatively propose that children and older adults show deficits in perspective taking compared to adults.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ADULT AGE-DIFFERENCES; IMAGINED SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS; WORKING-MEMORY; PERSPECTIVE-TAKING; TASK-PERFORMANCE; OLDER-ADULTS; SPEED; CHILDREN; ABILITIES; COGNITION; mental rotation; developmental changes; object-based and egocentric transformations |
| Subjects: | 700 Arts & recreation > 796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Sportwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2019 05:48 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2019 05:48 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/3739 |
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