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Mental Rotation: a new spin

Mar 06, 2008 09:47

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astrogeek01 March 6 2008, 20:25:01 UTC

This is a really interesting topic. I've been arguing lately (in the last 10 years) that it's really a learned thing, because I'm darn good at mental rotational things. I'm also really bad at games like Quake because for some reason I can't keep those layouts in my head ... but I also have not *tried* to learn to do so.

One thing that I find interesting about the study above is that men didn't do better than the blocks with a *female* figure. I would have thought it'd be the other way, if anything.