Neuroimaging Studies of Mental Rotation: A Meta-analysis and Review

By Jeffrey M. Zacks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2008

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Evaluating Geoscience Students' Spatial Thinking Skills in a Multi-Institutional Classroom Study (2014, background): “…studies have investigated the effect of gender and age differences in mental rotation (e.g., Vandenburg and Kuse 1978; Jansen and Heil, 2010), learning effects on mental rotation (e.g., Newcombe et al., 1983; Uttal et al., 2013), and the neural basis of mental rotation (e.g., Zacks, 2008).”
Auditory imagery: empirical findings. (2010, result): “…activation reflected an amodal mechanism for manipulation of auditory imagery rather than a mechanism for generation of auditory imagery, and this is consistent with findings that posterior parietal cortex exhibits significant activation during manipulation of visual imagery (e.g., Zacks, 2008).”
Complex Problem Solving (2015, background): “There are extensive neuroimaging and neuropsychological data to support the posterior parietal cortices involvement in the maintenance and transformation of internal representations (Carpenter, Just, Keller, Eddy, & Thulborn, 1999; Newman, Lee, & Bates, 2007; Newman et al., 2003; Zachs, 2008).”
Information Processing in the Mental Workspace Is Fundamentally Distributed (2016, background): “Each area has been shown to play a role in neural processing related to the current task (Crowe et al., 2013; Harrison & Tong, 2009; Margulies et al., 2009; Zacks, 2008; Schall, 2004; Tanaka, 1996).”
Effects of mental rotation training on children’s spatial and mathematics performance: A randomized controlled study (2015, result): “Findings from brain imaging studies corroborate behavioral evidence and indicate that basic numerical and visual–spatial tasks activate neighboring and overlapping regions in the intraparietal sulcus [11,20,47].”
The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech (2015, background): “If dialogic inner speech depended on such skills, it might be expected to recruit areas more typically associated with the generation and control of mental imagery, such as middle frontal gyrus (MFG), precuneus and superior parietal cortex (Zacks, 2007; McNorgan, 2012).”
Cognitive motor processes: the role of motor imagery in the study of motor representations. (2009, result): “This view has been corroborated by a recent meta-analysis integrating imaging studies of mental rotation tasks (Zacks, 2008).”