Publicación: Inducing strategies to solve a mental rotation task is possible: evidence from a sex-related eye-tracking analysis
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2024-12-08
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Taylor and Francis Group
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The study of spatial skills is gaining importance due to their relevance in everyday activities and their critical role in developing competencies across various academic disciplines. The main goal of this study was to explore whether mental rotation strategies, such as the so-called holistic –rotating an entire object- and piecemeal –rotating individual parts of the object- approaches, can be induced, and whether sex differences emerge during the process of strategy induction. This objective holds a pivotal role as it could lead to the enhancement of mental rotation abilities and the development of effective interventions. To achieve this, a mental rotation task was conducted while eye movements were recorded. In the first block, participants solved the task freely, while in the second block, they received instructions to solve it through either a holistic (42 participants) or a piecemeal (43 participants) strategy in a between-subjects design. In both strategies, participants showed better performance in the second block compared to the first. Males outperformed females. The holistic strategy resulted in faster reaction times in the second block. The number of fixations and saccadic movements decreased in the second block compared to the first for the holistic strategy, while the piecemeal strategy exhibited the opposite ocular pattern. These results indicate that effective mental rotation strategies were successfully elicited. No sex differences were found in the analyzed eye movement variables.
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Esta es la versión aceptada del artículo. La versión registrada fue publicada por primera vez en The Journal of General Psychology, 1–26, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor:
https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2024.2433287
This is the accepted version of the article. The recorded version was first published in The Journal of General Psychology, 1–26, and is available online at the publisher's website:
https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2024.2433287
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mental rotation, eye-movements, sex differences, holistic and piecemeal strategies
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Fernández-Méndez, L. M., Cepero Amores, L., Orenes, I., Prieto, A., Rodán, A., Montoro, P. R., … Contreras, M. J. (2024). Inducing strategies to solve a mental rotation task is possible: evidence from a sex-related eye-tracking analysis. The Journal of General Psychology, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2024.2433287
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Facultades y escuelas::Facultad de Psicología
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Psicología Básica II