ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Sex Differences in the Performance of 7-12 Year Olds on a Mental Rotation Task and the Relation With Arithmetic Performance.
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- Sociodemographic correlates of cognitive performance in healthy children and adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Metacognitive deficits in major depressive disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Minding the gap: a sex difference in young infants' mental rotation through thirty degrees of arc.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- A Novel Approach to Assessing Infant and Child Mental Rotation.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- [Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on event-related potentials of mental rotation].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2023Article
- School Achievement in Early Adolescence Is Associated With Students' Self-Perceived Executive Functions.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Spatial Thinking in Infancy: Origins and Development of Mental Rotation Between 3 and 10 Months of Age.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2020Review
- Sex differences in self-regulation in early, middle and late adolescence: A large-scale cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
This study evaluates boy-girl differences in 3D mental rotation in schoolchildren aged 7-12 years and the relation to arithmetic performance. A dedicated new task was developed: The Mental Rotation Task - Children (MRT-C). This task was applied to a large sample of 729 children. At the age of 7- to 9-years, a sex difference was found in the number of correct judgments made on the MRT-C. Boys performed better than girls. A closer look at the distribution of boys and girls in this age group showed that boys were overrepresented in the top performance quartile, whereas girls were overrepresented in the lowest performance quartile. A second finding was that higher mental rotation performance was significantly correlated to better mathematical achievement. This finding was done for boys, but not for girls. This correlation underscores the important role that spatial processing plays in mathematical achievement and has implications for school practice.
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