ArticlePsychological research2020
Does training mental rotation transfer to gains in mathematical competence? Assessment of an at-home visuospatial intervention.
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- Longitudinally adaptive assessment and instruction increase numerical skills of preschool children.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- What explains the relationship between spatial and mathematical skills? A review of evidence from brain and behavior.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Review
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- Spatial Thinking in Infancy: Origins and Development of Mental Rotation Between 3 and 10 Months of Age.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2020Review
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Abstract
The current study examined whether the effect of spatial training transfers to the math domain. Sixty-two 6- and 7-year-olds completed an at-home 1-week online training intervention. The spatial-training group received mental rotation training, whereas the active control group received literacy training in a format that matched the spatial training. Results revealed near transfer of mental rotation ability in the spatial-training group. More importantly, there was also far transfer to canonical arithmetic problems, such that children in the spatial-training group performed better on these math problems than children in the control group. Such far transfer could not be attributed to general cognitive improvement, since no improvement was observed for non-symbolic quantity processing, verbal working memory (WM), or language ability following spatial training. Spatial training may have benefitted symbolic arithmetic performance by improving visualization ability, access to the mental number line, and/or increasing the capacity of visuospatial WM.
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