title: The association between obesity and mental rotation ability in an adolescent sample.
abstract: Obesity has been related to deficient mental rotation performance. We assessed object-based and egocentric MR tasks in 19 obese and 19 normal-weight participants. Results showed slower response times of obese adolescents only for high angular disparities. This finding might emerge because of impairments in working memory, motor skills or perspective taking processes in obese youth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. Electronic address: sandra.kaltner@ur.de.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaltner
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Anja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jansen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology*; D011930:Reaction Time; D012399:Rotation; D065855:Spatial Processing
keywords: Egocentric transformations; Mental rotation; Obesity; Object-based transformations