A dissociation between two classes of spatial abilities in elementary school children
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Spatial Cognition XI - 11th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2018: Proceedings. Springer, 2018. p. 228-243 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11034 LNAI).
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T1 - A dissociation between two classes of spatial abilities in elementary school children
AU - Heil, Cathleen
N1 - Conference code: 11
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - This study investigates whether the abilities to mentally manipulate an imagined object (object manipulation abilities) and the abilities to coordinate perspectives of mental movement of the imagined self (egocentric perspective transformation abilities) are distinct classes of spatial abilities in elementary school children. We developed a paper-and-pencil test with measures of mental rotations and folding and a wide range of perspective taking tasks. 240 fourth graders were tested. By comparing different models in a confirmatory factor analysis, we found that there is a partial dissociation between object manipulation spatial abilities and perspective transformation abilities. The results specify the degree of overlap, and sex differences concerning the measures but not the underlying constructs.
AB - This study investigates whether the abilities to mentally manipulate an imagined object (object manipulation abilities) and the abilities to coordinate perspectives of mental movement of the imagined self (egocentric perspective transformation abilities) are distinct classes of spatial abilities in elementary school children. We developed a paper-and-pencil test with measures of mental rotations and folding and a wide range of perspective taking tasks. 240 fourth graders were tested. By comparing different models in a confirmatory factor analysis, we found that there is a partial dissociation between object manipulation spatial abilities and perspective transformation abilities. The results specify the degree of overlap, and sex differences concerning the measures but not the underlying constructs.
KW - Didactics of Mathematics
KW - Children
KW - Dissociation
KW - Gender
KW - Spatial abilities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053550645&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-96385-3_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-96385-3_16
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85053550645
SN - 978-3-319-96384-6
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 228
EP - 243
BT - Spatial Cognition XI - 11th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2018
PB - Springer
T2 - 11th International Conference on Spatial Cognition 2018
Y2 - 5 September 2018 through 8 September 2018
ER -