Mental rotation: The effects of processing strategy, gender and task characteristics on children's accuracy, reaction time and eye movements' pattern

Dorit Taragin; David Tzuriel; Eli Vakil

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Mental rotation: The effects of processing strategy, gender and task characteristics on children's accuracy, reaction time and eye movements' pattern

Dorit Taragin, David Tzuriel, Eli Vakil

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Abstract

The effects of gender, strategy and task characteristics on children's mental rotation (MR) behavioral measures and eye movements were studied. Eye movements reflect thinking pattern and assist understanding mental rotation performance. Eighty-three fourth-grade children (44 boys and 39 girls) were administered the Computerized Windows Mental Rotation test (CWMR) while having their eye movements monitored and completed a Strategy Self-Report (global/local/combined) and a Spatial Span (WM) subtest. Difficulty level affected performance and was reflected in a different eye movement pattern. Boys were more accurate than girls, but they did not differ in their eye movement pattern. Eye movement pattern was related to strategy, accuracy and reaction time, revealing that the global and combined strategy were more effective compared with local strategy. WM was found to correlate with accuracy at the easy level of the test. The usage of eye movement measures assists in elaborating our knowledge regarding MR performance among children and enable a wider understanding regarding the interaction between gender, strategy and difficulty level.

Original language	English
Article number	2
Journal	Journal of Eye Movement Research
Volume	12
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.12.8.2
State	Published - 6 Nov 2019

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© 2019 International Group for Eye Movement Research.

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This research is based on a Doctoral Dissertation of the first author. The study was funded by a grant from, President's Stipends Fund of Bar-Ilan University. The authors would like to acknowledge Mordecai Katz, Monique Katz and the Moses S. Schupf Fellowship Program for their generous sponsorship and for their support of the Doctoral degree studies and research. This research is based on a Doctoral Dissertation of the first author. The study was funded by a grant from, President’s Stipends Fund of Bar-Ilan University. The authors would like to acknowledge Mordecai Katz, Monique Katz and the Moses S. Schupf Fellowship Program for their generous sponsorship and for their support of the Doctoral degree studies and research.

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President's Stipends Fund of Bar-Ilan University
President’s Stipends Fund of Bar-Ilan University

Keywords

Difficulty level
Eye movement patterns
Gender differences
Global/local strategy
Mental rotation

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