A dissociation between mental rotation and perspective-taking spatial abilities

By Mary Hegarty, David Waller. 2004

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Geography, Planning and Development

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Citations in the corpus

The structure of human intelligence: It is verbal, perceptual, and image rotation (VPR), not fluid and crystallized (2005, background): “Factor analytic studies of spatial ability tasks have typically provided strong support for the existence of two distinct spatial abilities, usually termed visualization and orientation (Hegarty & Waller, 2004; McGee, 1979).”
Early Education for Spatial Intelligence: Why, What, and How (2010, background): “In a factor analytic study, Hegarty and Waller (2004) comparedseveralmeasuresofmental rotationandperspective-”
Intelligent Agent Transparency in Human–Agent Teaming for Multi-UxV Management (2016, background): “Both tasks measured related but distinct components of spatial ability (Hegarty & Waller, 2004): spatial visualization (SpaV; the mental rotation of objects) and spatial orientation (SpaO; the reori-entation of an environment).”
A Heuristic Framework of Spatial Ability: a Review and Synthesis of Spatial Factor Literature to Support its Translation into STEM Education (2018, neutral): “There is a posited shared variance between mental rotations and spatial orientation (SO) (Hegarty and Waller 2004) and arguably the proposed framework should represent links between these factors.”
Measurement of Spatial Ability: Construction and Validation of the Spatial Reasoning Instrument for Middle School Students (2017, methodology): “…Map Test of Reading Direction (Money, Alexander, & Walker, 1965), Guilford–Zimmerman Perspective Taking Test (Guilford & Zimmerman, 1948), test involving four cameras (De Lange, 1984), and the Perspective Taking/Spatial Orientation Test (SOT; Hegarty & Waller, 2004; Kozhevnikov & Hegarty, 2001).”
Spatial Ability: Its Influence on Learning with Visualizations—a Meta-Analytic Review (2010, background): “Seemingly, either both concepts are more correlated than assumed (see Hegarty and Waller 2004, and Miyake et al. 2001, for more evidence on this hypothesis); or both facets play their own important role when working with visualizations.”
The power of play: The effects of Portal 2 and Lumosity on cognitive and noncognitive skills (2015, methodology): “We administered the Spatial Orientation Test (Hegarty & Waller, 2004) to assess vista spatial skill.”
It’s All a Matter of Perspective: Viewing First-Person Video Modeling Examples Promotes Learning of an Assembly Task (2017, positive): “Although humans have the unique ability to take the spatial perspective of others, such mental transformations can be cognitively demanding (Hegarty & Waller, 2004; Kessler & Thomson, 2010).”
Sex differences in mental rotation and spatial visualization ability: Can they be accounted for by differences in working memory capacity? (2007, background): “Factor analytic studies of spatial ability tasks often point to two distinct spatial abilities, visualization and orientation (Hegarty & Waller, 2004; McGee, 1979).”
Types of reasoning in 3D geometry thinking and their relation with spatial ability (2010, background): “Hegarty and Waller (2004) interpreted the spatial orientation factor as the ability to make egocentric special transformations in which one's egocentric reference frame changes with respect to the environment, while the relation between object-based and environmental frames of reference does not cha”
Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning (2006, background): “In our study, we observed a strong correlation between perspective taking ability and small-scale spatial ability factors (see also Kozhevnikov & Hegarty, 2001; Hegarty & Waller, 2004 ), and there was no evidence that perspective taking made a unique contribution to predicting spatial-layout learni”
The Two Forms of Visuo-Spatial Perspective Taking are Differently Embodied and Subserve Different Spatial Prepositions (2010, result): “Verbal “left”/”right” judgments were significantly influenced by angular disparity conform to Experiment 1, our previous findings (Kessler and Thomson, 2010) and to reports by others (Kozhevnikov and Hegarty, 2001; Hegarty and Waller, 2004; Zacks and Michelon, 2005; Kozhevnikov et al., 2006).”