Predicting cognitive styles from spatial abilities.
Previous studies on spatial memory reveal that people represent spatial information in 3 different forms: landmark, route, and survey. The aim of this work was to assess spatial abilities in order to predict a person's cognitive style. In order to do this we used 9 different spatial tasks, which were linked with these 3 forms of spatial representations. We found that the 9 spatial tasks are able to distinguish different levels of spatial ability.
Università di Bologna, Italy.
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D000328:Adult; D001076:Aptitude; D001288:Attention; D003463:Cues; D003867:Depth Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012931:Social Environment