title: Autonomic physiological activity in mental rotation tasks.
abstract: The electrodermal response (EDR) during a mental rotation (MR) task performance was investigated. For 6 males and 8 females (16-25 years old) there was a progressive increase in the number of EDRs as the angle of rotation (complexity) of the task was increased. These results support previous findings that autonomic physiological activity varies with the amount of information processing or its difficulty.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, USA.
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Kalamas
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Gruber
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rypma
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*