Individual differences in mental animation during mechanical reasoning.

In three experiments we tested the effects of spatial visualization ability on performance of a motion-verification task, in which subjects were shown a diagram of a mechanical system and were asked to verify a sentence stating the motion of one of the system components. We propose that this task in...

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Publicado en:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 22; pp. 411 - 431
Autores principales:	Hegarty, Mary, Sims, Valerie K.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Science & Business Media B.V. July 1994
Materias:	Mechanical ability Human information processing Space perception Simple machines Charts, diagrams, etc.
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost