ArticleAdvances in cognitive psychology2013
Mental rotation performance in soccer players and gymnasts in an object-based mental rotation task.
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- Sport training of axial rotation affects spatial ability: Evidence from behavior and fNIRS.Heliyon · 2024Article
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- Embodied mental rotation ability in open- and closed-skill sports: pilot study with a new virtual paradigm.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Axial rotation affects the cognitive characteristics of spatial ability.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Mental rotation abilities of gymnasts and soccer players: a comparison of egocentric and object-based transformations. An exploratory and preliminary study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Effect of dynamic balance on human mental rotation task in female badminton vs. volleyball players.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Spatial Olfactory Memory and Spatial Olfactory Navigation, Assessed with a Variant of Corsi Test, Is Modulated by Gender and Sporty Activity.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Influence of the stimulus material on gender differences in a mental-rotation test.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Does the presence of more features in a bound representation in working memory require extra object-based attention?Memory & cognition · 2021Article
- Balance Expertise Is Associated with Superior Spatial Perspective-Taking Skills.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Gymnasts' Ability to Modulate Sensorimotor Rhythms During Kinesthetic Motor Imagery of Sports Non-specific Movements Superior to Non-gymnasts.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Article
- Effects of Physical Exercise Interventions on Spatial Orientation in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Scoping Review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Article
- The Time Course of Event-Related Brain Potentials in Athletes' Mental Rotation With Different Spatial Transformations.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- The role of attention in retaining the binding of integral features in working memory.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Imagery ability of elite level athletes from individual vs. team and contact vs. no-contact sports.PeerJ · 2019Article
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Abstract
In this study, the effect of motor expertise on an object-based mental rotation task was investigated. 60 males and 60 females (40 soccer players, 40 gymnasts, and 40 non-athletes, equivalent males and females in each group) solved a psychometric mental rotation task with both cube and human figures. The results revealed that all participants had a higher mental rotation accuracy for human figures compared to cubed figures, that the gender difference was reduced with human figures, and that gymnasts demonstrated a better mental rotation performance than non-athletes. The results are discussed against the background of the existing literature on motor experts, mental rotation performance as well as the importance of the testing situation and the test construction.
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