ArticlePsychological research2022
Pupillometry as a measure of cognitive load in mental rotation tasks with abstract and embodied figures.
Article in Psychological research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Unraveling children's mental rotation: insights from behavior and eye tracking.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- From Black Box to Transparency: The Impact of Multi-Level Visualization on User Trust in Autonomous Driving.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sport training of axial rotation affects spatial ability: Evidence from behavior and fNIRS.Heliyon · 2024Article
- The effect of internal and external visualization of rotation on postural stability.Frontiers in cognition · 2024Article
- Axial rotation affects the cognitive characteristics of spatial ability.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Applying functional near-infrared spectroscopy and eye-tracking in a naturalistic educational environment to investigate physiological aspects that underlie the cognitive effort of children during mental rotation tests.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
We investigated sex differences in behavioral performance and cognitive load in chronometric mental rotation tasks with abstract and embodied figures. Eighty participants (44 females and 36 males) completed 126 items, which included cube figures, body postures, and human figures, which were all comparable in shape and color. Reaction time, accuracy, and cognitive load, measured by changes in pupil dilation, were analyzed. As a function of angular disparity, participants showed shorter reaction times and higher accuracy rates for embodied stimuli than cube figures. Changes in pupil dilation showed a similar pattern, indicating that mental rotation of embodied figures caused less cognitive load to solve the task. No sex differences appeared in any of the measurements.
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